Nothing rivals the human brain's complexity. Its 86 billion neurons and 85 billion other cells make an estimated 100 trillion connections. If the brain were a computer, it would perform an exaflop (a ...

Mathematician Kevin Buzzard of Imperial College London is training computers how to prove one of the most famous problems in math history: Fermat’s last theorem. Resolving the problem isn’t the point.

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Axiom Math is giving away a powerful new AI tool. But it remains to be seen if it speeds up research as much as the company hopes. Axiom Math, a startup based in Palo Alto, California, has released a ...

David E. Dunning explores how mathematical notation is a social, world-building technology. It’s natural to think of math as being fundamentally abstract. Whether it’s invented or discovered, its ...

Portholes may look like simple windows, but their design is carefully engineered for safety. Their round shape distributes stress evenly across the surrounding metal, preventing cracks from forming in ...

If UNC wants to avoid a Round 1 upset by VCU, they are going to have to figure out how to replace "do-it-all forward" Caleb Wilson. Peyton Williams / Getty Images You didn’t think we’d leave you ...

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Students, parents and school principals all instinctively know that some teachers are better than others. Education researchers have spent decades trying — with mixed success — to calculate exactly ...

If math was never your strongest subject, take a number. But veteran teacher Courtney Phillips discovered math is hidden in an ancient game. In 20 years as a 4th grade teacher, she observed that math ...

Descriptive set theorists study the niche mathematics of infinity. Now, they’ve shown that their problems can be rewritten in the concrete language of algorithms. All of modern mathematics is built on ...