Math

Math long resisted a digital disruption. AI is poised to change that

Modern formalization, supercharged by AI, could radically change the way people do mathematics

An animated GIF of a math equation.

Illustration by Melvin Galapon

By Stephen Ornes

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Mathematician Kevin Buzzard of Imperial College London is training computers how to prove one of the most famous problems in math history: Fermat’s last theorem.