Tao: Today there are a lot of very tedious types of mathematics that we don’t like doing, so we look for clever ways to get ...

Many of us would probably like to forget sitting through math classes in school. But let’s briefly travel back, just for a ...

Probability underpins AI, cryptography and statistics. However, as the philosopher Bertrand Russell said, "Probability is the most important concept in modern science, especially as nobody has the ...

Thousands of fireflies in the eastern US and Southeast Asia exhibit breathtaking synchronized flashing, a phenomenon now ...

One ball on a Plinko board is unpredictable. Drop a thousand and they form a near-perfect bell curve—one of math’s most powerful ideas for 150+ years.

A new Stanford study suggests math struggles may be about more than numbers. Children who had difficulty with math were less ...

In the dusty, book-filled tumult of the Jaipur Literature Festival, where the air thrums with the rhythms of poetry and politics, one might not expect to find a mathematician holding court. But there ...

With the tech space still attempting to digest wide-ranging fears associated with the possible bubble in artificial intelligence, innovators in other fields have also struggled. In particular, ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — With recent advances, cancer research now generates vast amounts of information. The data could help researchers detect patterns in cancer cells and stop their growth, but the ...

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