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 ...

They had to throw away most of what it produced but there was gold among the garbage. Google DeepMind has used a large language model to crack a famous unsolved problem in pure mathematics. In a paper ...

A campaign, backed by the family of Alan Turing, warns that students learning 'pure maths' is on the decline because it is threatened by a focus on other subjects. Pure maths is the study of concepts, ...