A human has outkissed one of Google’s superpowered artificial intelligence systems. The achievement isn’t in the realm of ...

Mathematicians are “reinventing the wheel” by giving it a new shape. Their newly imagined wheel looks like a many-dimensional guitar pick, and it could theoretically roll in ways beyond our ...

Theoretical mathematician Lauren K. Williams is the second woman in Harvard’s history to get tenure in the math department ...

It is rare to read about “spectacular progress” or a “once-in-a-century” result in mathematics. That’s for good reason: if a problem has not had a solution for many years, then completely new ...

Harvard Mathematics professor Lauren K. Williams has been awarded a 2025 MacArthur Fellowship for her groundbreaking research ...

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