Mathematicians Wrote a Proof for a 100-Year-Old Problem—and May Have Just Changed Geometry
The Kakeya set—named for its discoverer Sōichi Kakeya—was complicated by a subsequent mathematician named Abram Samoilovitch ...
AI LLMs Astonishingly Bad At Doing Proofs And Disturbingly Using Blarney In Their Answers
Turns out generative AI and LLMs are bad at devising math proofs. That's a surprise. Worse still is that the AI tries to make ...
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Mathematicians Solve Decades-Old Geometry Problem About Spinning a Needle That Had Long Puzzled the Field
A new proof solves the “Kakeya conjecture” in three dimensions, opening up a new set of possibilities for mathematics, from computer science to cryptography ...