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 ...
Cognitive overload can create a bottleneck during math lessons, but there are simple strategies to clear up students’ brain space for complex problem-solving.
Emmanuel Onyegu said it’s always been his dream to be recognized by Guinness World Records. His mastery of math might just get him there.
Mathematicians from the California Institute of Technology have solved an old problem related to a mathematical process called a random walk.
LLMs have recently helped find solutions to a number of minor longstanding problems. But a new plan called First Proof is really putting them to the test ...
If you've got the time, we've got the riddle. And it's time for a riddle about time: How many numbers are on a clock?
Five years ago, mathematicians Dawei Chen and Quentin Gendron were trying to untangle a difficult area of algebraic geometry involving differentials, elements of calculus used to measure distance ...
Clips of a three-year-old Lego clock video that I'd not seen before just resurfaced, and it's making the rounds across social media. Naturally, I went in search of the full video, but what I found ...
WASHINGTON (TNND) — The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists set the Doomsday Clock to 85 seconds to midnight for 2026. The Doomsday Clock is a design that warns the public about how close we are to ...
The Collatz Conjecture is defined by a rule simple enough for a child to follow. No matter what number you start with, the process always appears to end the same way — and it has never been observed ...
Over the weekend, Neel Somani, who is a software engineer, former quant researcher, and a startup founder, was testing the math skills of OpenAI’s new model when he made an unexpected discovery. After ...