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University of Chicago mathematics Prof. Yu Deng has received the Fields Medal for his contributions toward placing the laws ...

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John Pardon sees connections between different areas of math that others don’t. For that vision, he’s now been awarded a ...

A PHD in math disproved an 87 year old math problem with about two hours of working with Anthropic Fable. The Jacobian ...

Anthropic’s Fable 5 found a 216-character counterexample to the Jacobian conjecture, an 87-year-old maths problem. Experts are split on what it means.

Claude Fabel 5 disproved the Jacobian conjecture over the weekend, landing days after the capabilities of China's Kimi AI became the biggest force moving bitcoin markets.