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"Once In A Century" Math Proof Threads The Needle On A Decades-Old Conjecture

If pure math can teach us anything, it’s this: occasionally, your special interest might just change the world. For Joshua Zahl and Hong Wang, that special interest was the Kakeya conjecture. “I read ...
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Mathematicians Wrote a Proof for a 100-Year-Old Problem—and May Have Just Changed Geometry

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." A 125-page proof posted to arXiv may represent a huge breakthrough in geometric measure theory. This ...
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Google DeepMind AI software makes a breakthrough in solving geometry problems

Scientists at Google DeepMind, Alphabet's advanced AI research division, have created artificial intelligence software able to solve difficult geometry proofs used to test high school students in the ...
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Google’s DeepMind builds hybrid AI system to solve complex geometry problems

Researchers at DeepMind, the artificial intelligence research division of Alphabet Inc., have created software that’s able to solve difficult geometry proofs that are often used to test the brightest ...