Mathematicians from the California Institute of Technology have solved an old problem related to a mathematical process called a random walk.

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 ...

In “The Great Math War,” Jason Socrates Bardi takes on a battle for the soul of numbers that divided the experts of its day. By Jordan Ellenberg Jordan Ellenberg, a professor of mathematics at the ...

When it comes to randomness in JavaScript, most developers instinctively reach for Math.random(). It’s simple, accessible, and great for everyday use—like shuffling an array or generating a quick ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. American students are experiencing a math crisis marked by a decline in scores that began over a decade ago and ...

A Westdale Middle School math teacher was arrested Tuesday morning after a drug-sniffing dog alerted police to cocaine in a bag on her desk. Virginia Somers, 47, was booked into the parish prison on a ...

If you’ve ever shuffled a deck of playing cards, you’ve most likely created a unique deck. That is, you’re probably the only person who has ever arranged the cards in precisely that order. Although ...

Go is an open-source programming language used by companies such as Google, Meta, Microsoft, and more. Go is an open-source programming language used by companies such as Google, Meta, Microsoft, and ...

Abstract: In artificial intelligence, it is crucial for pattern recognition systems to process data with uncertain information, necessitating uncertainty reasoning approaches such as evidence theory.

Katie has a PhD in maths, specializing in the intersection of dynamical systems and number theory. She reports on topics from maths and history to society and animals. Katie has a PhD in maths, ...

Test after test of U.S. students’ reading and math abilities have shown scores declining since the pandemic. Now, new results show that it’s not just children whose skills have fallen over the past ...