Probability underlies much of the modern world – an engineering professor explains how it actually works

Probability underpins AI, cryptography and statistics. However, as the philosopher Bertrand Russell said, “Probability is the ...

Scientists Solve One of the Most Notorious Open Problems in Math

It’s a breakthrough in the field of random walks.
Forbes

Meet The Stanford Dropout Building An AI To Solve Math’s Hardest Problems—And Create Harder Ones

24-year-old founder and CEO Carina Hong created Axiom Math in March 2025 and has recruited a team of ten employees, most of whom are from Meta, to build a math-focused AI model. Last fall, Carina Hong ...

AI Can Solve Many Complex Problems, So Why Isn’t Science Moving Faster?

One would imagine that an AI capable of solving the hardest Olympiad problems would naturally produce novel scientific ...
Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica

Programme Combinatorics Problem-Solving Workshop

This workshop is part of the Research Semester Programme 'PhaseCAP: Phase Transitions in Combinatorics, Algorithms and Probability'.
EurekAlert!

The math problem that took nearly a century to solve

Ramsey problems, such as r(4,5) are simple to state, but as shown in this graph, the possible solutions are nearly endless, making them very difficult to solve. We’ve all been there: staring at a math ...