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An AI Just Took Gold at the World’s Hardest Math Contest and It Wasn’t Even Trained For It

The International Math Olympiad (IMO) is a brainy battleground where the world’s most talented teenage mathematicians wrestle with devilishly difficult math problems. It’s long been considered a ...
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Mathematicians Are Getting Closer to Translating an ‘Alien Language’

First proposed in 2012, the Inter-universal Teichmüller Theory (IUT) is a devilishly difficult math theory that experts describe as an “alien language.” Although only a few mathematicians around the ...