This passage sums up both the mathematical undercurrent of the book and its distinctive narrative style. Best known for ...

Alexander Grothendieck was a titan in his field, making deep connections that fuelled a revolution in mathematics, before ...

In theory, quantum physics can bypass the hard mathematical problems at the root of modern encryption. A new proof shows how.

The Busy Beaver Challenge, a notoriously difficult question in theoretical computer science, is now producing answers so large they’re impossible to write out using standard mathematical notation.

Dan Shipper in Chain of Thought Last week I wrote that we’d be publishing a few excerpts from a book I’m writing about the worldview I’ve developed by writing, coding, and living with AI. Here’s the ...

It is worth noting that the lawsuit asks the court to move as quickly as possible to block implementation of Idaho’s HB 93.

Axiom Math, which has recruited top talent from Meta, has raised $64 million in seed funding to build an AI math whiz.

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We've wondered for centuries whether knowledge is latent and innate or learned and grasped through experience, and a new ...