In 1976, Appel and Haken proved the Four Color Theorem by reducing it to thousands of cases and checking them mechanically.

Artificial intelligence is increasingly being used as a collaborator in mathematical research rather than simply a computational tool. A young mathematician teamed up with a new AI model to tackle one ...

In May 2026, OpenAI released a new math result that sent shock waves throughout the world of mathematical research. A major unsolved problem called the “unit distance conjecture” had just been ...

While improvements in computer hardware and high performance computing frameworks continue to provide computational speed increases, efficient mathematical algorithms and skillful coding are essential ...

A May 2024 Reuters Institute and University of Oxford survey, which included more than 12,000 people from six countries, found that 21% of respondents on average have used ChatGPT professionally. This ...

DALLAS (SMU) – A multi-institutional team, including SMU’s Mathematics Chair Daniel Reynolds and SMU PhD graduate David Gardner, has been awarded the 2023 SIAM/ACM Prize in Computational Science and ...

Numerical and computational mathematics develops and analyses algorithmic strategies for approximating solutions to mathematical models that lack closed-form expressions. Central themes include the ...