Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In 3D the kissing number is 12, as illustrated by basketballs. A human has outkissed one of Google’s superpowered artificial ...

Scientists at Fudan University, Peking University, and the Shanghai Academy of AI for Science (SAIS) used an artificial intelligence system called Packing Star to solve a 300-year-old maths problem ...

Breaking a 20 year drought, a researcher found three new bounds for the famous mathematical ‘kissing number’ dilemma –– and AI managed to find just one. How many coins can touch one coin, or how many ...

For all of the recent strides we’ve made in the math world—like a supercomputer finally solving the Sum of Three Cubes problem that puzzled mathematicians for 65 years—we’re forever crunching ...