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At 25, Kurt Gödel proved there can never be a mathematical “theory of everything.” Columnist Natalie Wolchover explores the implications. In 1931, by turning logic on itself, Kurt Gödel proved a pair ...
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Let’s start with what’s probably the most tired, overused joke in math: A topologist is someone who can’t tell a coffee cup from a doughnut. Both, you see, have a hole in them. Topology is usually ...
Artificial intelligence is mastering the kinds of projects that have long helped to build the careers of young mathematicians ...
A week after OpenAI made headlines with an A.I.-generated proof, a new “declaration” by 16 experts raises concerns that the ...
By encoding mathematical statements into numbers, mathematician Kurt Gödel used ordinary arithmetic to check whether a ...
Mathematician Will Sawin discusses his experience reviewing and refining a mathematical proof devised by OpenAI's internal ...
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The 10th European Set Theory Conference continues a series that began in 2007. Since its first edition, the European Set Theory Conference has been a key venue for advancing research in the field ...
INSTEAD of merely revising his former treatise, Prof. Love has written a new one; the result is that we have two works by the same author, in some ways contrasting, in others complementary. And as in ...