Benjamin Skuse
Benjamin Skuse is a professional freelance writer of all things science and technology. Previously, he earned a PhD in applied mathematics from the University of Edinburgh and an MSc in science communication from the University of the West of England. His work has appeared in New Scientist, WIRED, IEEE Spectrum, Physics World, Sky & Telescope, Photonics Focus, and many more outlets.
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'This is what happened with Claude and me': AI's failed attempt to crack the Riemann hypothesis led mathematician to a breakthroughAn attempt by Anthropic's Claude failed to prove the Riemann hypothesis, but it did produce something genuinely useful: inspiration.
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'Predatory behavior': Elite mathematicians clash over OpenAI's 'solution' to million-dollar math problemOpenAI's controversial claim to have cracked the Navier-Stokes existence-and-smoothness problem has sent shock waves through the mathematics community.
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Nobel Prize-winning physicist and team use Claude AI to solve decades-old math puzzleA decade after uncovering a mysterious mathematical relationship in the physics of "jamming," Nobel laureate Giorgio Parisi and collaborator Francesco Zamponi have finally cracked the case — not with a radical new theory, but with the help of the generative AI Claude.
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'Crystals' of space-time could be the origins of rare black holes, theoretical study hintsBy taking general relativity into higher dimensions, a trio of physicists has proven that a mathematical pattern of ripples in space-time geometry could give rise to naked singularities and microscopic black holes.
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