For all of the recent strides we’ve made in the math world, we’re forever crunching calculations in pursuit of deeper ...

Artificial intelligence systems may be good at generating text, recognizing images, and even solving basic math problems—but when it comes to advanced mathematical reasoning, they are hitting a wall.

Freedom and restraint seem like opposing forces, but to Yu Deng, they go hand in hand. Take the poem he’s just pulled up on his computer screen: a dense forest of Chinese characters corralled into ...