Mathematicians spend most of their time thinking about what’s knowable. But the unknowable can be just as compelling. Perhaps the most famous example comes from a theorem by the logician Kurt Gödel.

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A critical question about Large Language Models (LLMs) is whether their apparent deficiency in mathematical reasoning is inherent, or merely a result of insufficient exposure to high-quality ...

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Making malicious requests via an algebraic equation instead of in plain language can fool genAI protections against abuse, say researchers. Security controls aimed at preventing a threat actor from ...

Google’s Circle to Search feature will get support for symbolic math problems on July 24, according to the fine print on Samsung’s website. The fine print also notes that multi-window Gemini support ...

Mathematics is traditionally a solitary science. In 1986 Andrew Wiles withdrew to his study for seven years to prove Fermat’s theorem. The resulting proofs are often difficult for colleagues to ...