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Department of Mathematics and Statistics hosts Math Day 2026
2+ hour, 26+ min ago (261+ words) By Rachel Carroll | May 28, 2026 MURRAY, Ky. " Murray State University's Department of Mathematics and Statistics hosted Math Day 2026 on campus on Feb. 5. First place: Graves County High School " Drew Johnson, Kaiden Luckey, Lane Lunsford and Xander Mills Second place: Marshall County…...
Mathematical AI helps researchers crack 50-year-old problem
2+ hour, 18+ min ago (430+ words) After an AI from Open AI found a trick to solve an 80-year-old conjecture from Paul Erd's, mathematicians have borrowed the same technique to solve another important problem Paul Erd's made many conjectures about numbers in his life Just a…...
How bad will wildfires get this year? Officials set to share outlook
1+ hour, 51+ min ago (31+ words) unpublished. ca How bad will wildfires get this year? Officials set to share outlook Be the first to comment...
Henna Koivusalo nominated for London Mathematical Society's Emmy Noether Fellow
6+ hour, 57+ min ago (137+ words) Staff and PGR intranet The LMS "grants enable applicants to enhance mathematical sciences research, after returning from a major break associated with caring responsibilities or requiring support to maintain their research programme while dealing with significant ongoing caring responsibilities. Henna…...
Multraship Launches State-of-the-Art Simulator And Training Center In Collaboration With W'rtsil'
2+ hour, 25+ min ago (252+ words) The new simulator suite, which is based at the group's headquarters in Terneuzen in the Netherlands, enables masters, towmasters and crews to train in realistic operational scenarios, including complex towing procedures, challenging navigational conditions, project towage operations and emergency response…...
Open AI's "milestone" math breakthrough played to AI's strengths
3+ hour ago (1898+ words) Last week, Open AI announced that an internal AI model had disproved the Erd's unit distance conjecture, a famous problem in discrete geometry that had stumped human mathematicians for the last 80 years. Open AI gave several mathematicians early access to…...
Multraship launches state-of-the-art simulator and training centre in collaboration with W'rtsil'
3+ hour, 11+ min ago (287+ words) posted by AJOT | May 28 2026 at 09: 43 AM | Maritime " Novatug has launched a brand new advanced simulator and training center using technology from W'rtsil' to promote safer operations and strengthen the preparedness and effectiveness of its crew for complex towage, vessel handling…...
An Exponential Cascade, Upwards and Out
4+ hour, 11+ min ago (1054+ words) Just before submitting his application to the University of Pittsburgh, Jonathon (Jack) Bender changed his intended major. His original plan was history, but a few of Bender's high school science and math teachers had seen his potential and turned him…...
Start-ups are racing to revolutionise mathematics with AI
4+ hour, 31+ min ago (540+ words) AI start-ups with hundreds of millions of dollars in funding are hiring mathematicians and building AI systems that they hope will not only solve mathematics, but also build more intelligent AI Open AI is one company testing how well its…...
This puzzle by Paul Erd's resisted mathematicians for decades, an AI just cracked it
7+ hour, 12+ min ago (452+ words) 3 DVF This puzzle by Paul Erd's resisted mathematicians for decades, an AI just cracked it For decades, a deceptively simple puzzle from Paul Erd's taunted mathematicians: among any scatter of points, how many equal-length segments can you draw before patterns…...