The closest the field has come to solving the planar unit distance problem, first proposed in the 1940s, was in 1984. Now, OpenAI claims an internal model has cracked the puzzle.

Quantum computers are supposed to revolutionize scientific computing, but researchers have recently shown that a classical computer can sometimes outperform them. Using advanced mathematical models, a ...

In March 2025, mathematicians Yu Deng, Zaher Hani, and Xiao Ma of the University of Chicago published a paper on the unpeer-reviewed paper repository arXiv, claiming to have solved Hilbert's Sixth ...