Mathematicians Wang and Wu of Hunan University released a preprint proving the Spherical Hadwiger Conjecture, an integral-geometry problem unsolved since 1974, using OpenAI Codex to help develop proof details, spot gaps, and draft the manuscript. The authors say they verified all AI-generated mathematical content themselves and take full responsibility for the final result, following disclosure practices similar to the Leiden Declaration guidelines for AI use in research.
Eric Harshbarger, a mathematician at Auburn University, has finally solved a puzzle he began working on in 2012: designing a set of dice that lets five players roll simultaneously to decide turn order, with every player having an equal chance of winning and no possibility of a tie. The finished product, called the Go First Dice, took nearly 15 years to move from theoretical concept to a working physical set.
Ruchira Shree, a New Jersey high school sophomore active with IEEE's Princeton Central Jersey Section, interned with the Alliance for Indigenous Math Circles, a group that runs STEM camps for Native American students. During the camp, she helped participants prepare for and pass amateur ham radio licensing exams as part of broader math and technology instruction.
Mathematician Heisuke Hironaka has died, according to an obituary published in Nature. He was renowned for proving the resolution of singularities in algebraic geometry, a landmark result that addressed how to mathematically smooth out irregular points such as peaks, edges and self-crossings within geometric shapes.
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