Recent studies show that the less likely someone is to use procedural solutions, the better they tend to be at more abstract problem-solving—and gender is a significant predictor. In a new study, ...

Kelly’s is provocative, to say the least. He suggests that at its core, good writing draws readers in by dropping certain kinds of references in a mathematical way that constitutes an “algorithm,” ...

After outgrowing its original home, the National Museum of Mathematics has added new exhibits and an art gallery space in ...

Christina Sullivan was aiming for a career in film production. "Drive to Survive" brought her back to engineering and an F1 ...

Abstract: In this study, a pioneering metaheuristic optimization approach, named Proportional-Integral-Derivative (PID)-based Search Algorithm (PSA), is suggested for the first time in the context of ...

It's been 10 years since Go champion Lee Sedol lost to DeepMind's AlphaGo. Has the technology lived up to its potential?

Math vocabulary alone isn’t a silver bullet—but research shows it’s linked to stronger academic achievement when paired with expert teaching practices.

Databricks has released KARL, an RL-trained RAG agent that it says handles all six enterprise search categories at 33% lower cost than frontier models.

GPT 5.4 Pro offers several other innovations. Open AI claimed that it was the first version that can do things on computers, ...

What do a 20th-century physicist, an 18th-century statistician and an ancient Greek philosopher have in common? They all knew how to extrapolate with incredible accuracy. Columnist Jacob Aron explains ...

Mathematics Department convinced famous YouTuber to speak on campus and enthralled a full house with visualizations of ...

How do biological cells join forces to form a structure? In her Ph.D. research, Daphne Nesenberend uses mathematics to show ...