AI is helping tackle one of the biggest unsolved problems in maths

Artificial intelligence's ability to sift through large amounts of data is helping us tackle one of the most difficult unsolved problems in mathematics. Yang-Hui He at the City, University of London in the UK and colleagues are using the help of machine learning to better understand the Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer conjecture, one of the seven fiendishly difficult Millennium Prize Problems, which offers a million-dollar reward for the first correct solution to each.