Experienced mathematicians warn up-and-comers to stay away from the Collatz conjecture. It’s a siren song, they say: Fall under its trance and you may never do meaningful work again. The Collatz ...

Terence Tao, the legendary mathematician, explains the promise of generative AI. Over the past couple of months, several researchers have begun making the same provocative claim: They used ...

To his family he was little Terry from Adelaide, but to the rest of the world he became known as the Mozart of maths and one of the smartest people alive. See the video. The little boy was happy to ...