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In One Weekend, a High-School Dropout Using AI Shook the Math World For about fifty years, mathematicians inched the proven share of the Riemann zeta function’s nontrivial zeros on the critical line from 33.3% to 41.6%. In a result announced in August 2026, an AI model raised it to 67.2% in about two days of […]

As a kid growing up in the 1980s, I was captivated by the emerging world of home computers. I had a TI-99/4A first and later upgraded to a Commodore 64.  I spent countless hours as a child writing programs in BASIC, trying to make these first home computers do various things, and absorbed in the possibilities they represented.  In reflecting on the evolution of computers over the decades since those childhood experiences, I’ve come to the realization that one of the major exponential advances in computer technology for users was when home computers became widely available.  That was the biggest change in our lives that came from computers and, in my view, far more transformative than any of the incremental improvements that followed.