Kenji Nakamura

Bureau: Tokyo

A chalkboard in a quiet university mathematics common room showing scattered dot constructions with light lines between unit-distance pairs, an open journal volume on the table in foreground.

OpenAI's Erdős Proof Wins Mathematician's Verification, Annals Recommendation

Five days on, the OpenAI unit-distance result has cleared Thomas Bloom independently and Tim Gowers has said he would have recommended it to the Annals of Mathematics without hesitation.

By Kenji Nakamura, Tokyo May 25 2 min read

An NIH Bethesda laboratory hallway on Memorial Day Monday morning with closed office doors and no foot traffic.

Technology

N.I.H. Grant Approvals Stay Below 50 Percent With R01 Deadline June 5

Six consecutive Sundays under 50 percent on the AAU tracker, $47.22 billion still not moving, and the June 5 R01 deadline lands inside a capacity gap the institutes have not closed.

By Kenji Nakamura, Tokyo May 25 2 min read