Paul Erdős was one of the most prolific mathematicians of the 20th century, writing nearly 1,500 papers while living out of a suitcase with no permanent home. He could struggle with ordinary tasks ...

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That’s it for our live coverage today, we will be back tomorrow morning for Irish paper two and biology in the afternoon. Our full Irish paper one review by Peter McGuire will be published on the site ...

After a tough start with paper 1 last week, many Leaving Cert students would have been relieved with a fair and approachable maths paper 2 on Monday morning. The 2026 State exams continued on Monday ...

Yang-Hui He is a fellow at the London Institute for Mathematical Sciences in London, UK. Among mathematicians and theoretical physicists, artificial intelligence provokes a range of reactions. Some ...

In mid-May, OpenAI announced that an internal AI model had disproved the Erdős unit distance conjecture, a famous problem in discrete geometry that had stumped human mathematicians for the last 80 ...

A recent announcement that an artificial intelligence model succeeded in solving a decades-old mathematical problem that had eluded generations of accomplished mathematicians was widely portrayed as ...

Last week, OpenAI shocked the mathematical community by revealing that one of its internal artificial intelligence (AI) models had found a counterexample to a famous conjecture made by legendary ...

OpenAI has said that its unreleased AI reasoning model solved a decades-old mathematical problem that had remained unsolved for nearly 80 years. The model produced an original mathematical proof ...

OpenAI has announced that one of its AI models has solved a long-standing mathematics problem first posed by mathematician Paul Erdős in 1946. The company claims the model disproved a central ...

In a world where scientific breakthroughs often bring fame, wealth, and global recognition, Grigori Perelman chose a completely different path. The Russian mathematician stunned the academic world ...