Terence Tao, a mathematics professor at UCLA, is a real-life superintelligence. The “Mozart of Math,” as he is sometimes called, is widely considered the world’s greatest living mathematician. He has ...

AI is now helping produce research-level mathematics, but experts say verifying proofs not generating them is becoming the ...

Over the past couple of months, several researchers have begun making the same provocative claim: They used generative-AI tools to solve a previously unanswered math problem. The most extreme promises ...

Artificial intelligence systems may be good at generating text, recognizing images, and even solving basic math problems—but when it comes to advanced mathematical reasoning, they are hitting a wall.

Terence Tao, a UCLA professor considered to be the “world’s greatest living mathematician,” last month compared ChatGPT’s o1 reasoning model to a “mediocre, but not completely incompetent” graduate ...

Professor Terence Tao during a 2023 interview with Donga Science. Courtesy of Donga Science. Recently, a 23-year-old amateur with no formal mathematical training used artificial intelligence (AI) to ...

Terence Tao was reading and counting by age 2, studying university-level math by 9, and finished a Princeton PhD by 20. He went on to win the Fields Medal, become tenured at UCLA at 24, help prove ...

The books will invite readers on a tour of transformational ideas that have shaped our modern understanding of the universe. Quanta Books is delighted to announce two new upcoming books by ...