Years ago, no math education was complete without understanding how to compute a square root. Today, you are probably just reaching for a calculator, or if you are writing a program, you’ll ...

Helping students to develop math fluency takes more than just flash cards. It requires teaching them how to think about numbers. And while that may seem daunting, most kids enjoy sharpening their math ...

The belief that we are living in a Matrix-like simulation has has grown traction in recent years, but boffins believe they ...

A new physics study challenges the simulation hypothesis, arguing that the universe contains realities that can likely never ...

A new statistical model has successfully sorted members of the U.S. Congress into distinct political and legislative groups based solely on their interaction patterns on the social media platform X.

Some of the models used to forecast everything from financial trends to animal populations in an ecosystem are incorrect, ...

Mathematics is the first place where evidence of AI superintelligence is likely to appear, a theoretical computer scientist says. “Will there be a superhuman AI mathematician?” asked theoretical ...

Artificial intelligence (AI) is increasingly prevalent, integrated into phone apps, search engines and social media platforms ...

Online casino games are often associated with luck and chance, but behind every spin of a slot reel or flip of a digital card lies precise mathematics. Casino game development is not random guesswork.

The natural complexity of the universe should phase out the possibility of some advanced civilization controlling reality ...

Two decades ago, the mathematician Moon Duchin spent her summers teaching geometry at Mathcamp, a program for mathematically talented teens. Campers contemplated notions such as how to prove whether a ...

Recently, there has been a lot of hullabaloo about the idea that large reasoning models (LRM) are unable to think. This is mostly due to a research article published by Apple, "The Illusion of ...