equations

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But even mathematicians were astonished when OpenAI announced that one of its models resolved a puzzle known as the unit distance problem without the help of any humans scribbling a bunch of equations on chalkboards.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 30, 2026

As of today, high-performance computers have limitations when it comes to solving extremely difficult equations with hundreds or thousands of variables.

From Barron's • May 21, 2026

The theory began to take shape in the 1920s, when Georges Lemaître linked Edwin Hubble’s observations of receding galaxies with Alexander Friedmann’s earlier equations describing an expanding universe.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 19, 2026

You develop a feel for probability that you can’t get from doing equations.

From MarketWatch • May 12, 2026

A black hole is a zero in the equations of general relativity; the energy of the vacuum is a zero in the mathematics of quantum theory.

From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife