Ananyo Bhattacharya is chief science writer at the London Institute for Mathematical Sciences and the author of The Man from the Future: The Visionary Life of John von Neumann.
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Last week, a 23-year-old amateur with no advanced mathematical training did something many mathematicians never manage in a lifetime: he solved a 60-year-old problem posed by the spectacularly prolific Hungarian mathematician Paul Erdos. Liam Price, armed chiefly with curiosity and a ChatGPT-Pro subscription, found a solution to a long-standing Erdos conjecture that had resisted being solved for
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More than anyone else, John von Neumann created the future. He was an unparalleled genius, one of the greatest mathematicians of the 20th century, and he helped invent the world as we now know it. He came up with a blueprint of the modern computer and sparked the beginnings of artificial intelligence. He worked on
