In pure mathematics, very occasionally, breakthroughs arrive like bolts from the blue – the result of such inspired feats of reasoning and creativity that they seem to push the very bounds of ...

Breakthrough suggests technology behind ChatGPT and Bard can generate information that goes beyond human knowledge Artificial intelligence researchers claim to have made the world’s first scientific ...

Pure mathematics isn’t renowned as a field that most directly addresses challenges in the real world. But a new research centre at Hiroshima University in Japan is on a mission to overturn that ...

In 1900, twenty-three unsolved mathematical problems, known as Hilbert's Problems, were compiled as a definitive list by mathematician David Hilbert. A century later, the seven most important unsolved ...

Award-winning Indian mathematician on the possibilities and limitations of using artificial intelligence (AI) to solve some of the most famous maths problems in the world. Plus, why she's excited ...

Two brothers in Singapore have built a data-encryption company on pure mathematics, betting that a problem no algorithm can solve will keep files safe from the quantum computers expected to break much ...

Only one in three matriculants took pure Mathematics in 2025. For a country where STEM skills are officially classified as critical – and where the National Development Plan targets 450 000 university ...