Probability underlies much of the modern world – an engineering professor explains how it actually works

Probability underpins AI, cryptography and statistics. However, as the philosopher Bertrand Russell said, “Probability is the ...

Scientists Solve One of the Most Notorious Open Problems in Math

It’s a breakthrough in the field of random walks.

AI Can Solve Many Complex Problems, So Why Isn’t Science Moving Faster?

One would imagine that an AI capable of solving the hardest Olympiad problems would naturally produce novel scientific ...
Forbes

Meet The Stanford Dropout Building An AI To Solve Math’s Hardest Problems—And Create Harder Ones

24-year-old founder and CEO Carina Hong created Axiom Math in March 2025 and has recruited a team of ten employees, most of whom are from Meta, to build a math-focused AI model. Last fall, Carina Hong ...
Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica

Programme Combinatorics Problem-Solving Workshop

This workshop is part of the Research Semester Programme 'PhaseCAP: Phase Transitions in Combinatorics, Algorithms and Probability'.

Leading AI models struggle to solve original math problems

Mathematics, like many other scientific endeavors, is increasingly using artificial intelligence. Of course, math is the ...
BBC

Module 5 (M5) – Handling data - Probability

Probabilities can be written as fractions, decimals or percentages on a scale from 0 to 1. Knowing basic facts about equally likely outcomes can help to solve more complicated problems. Probability is ...