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Why China's Race For AI Dominance Depends On Math
Forget about “AI” itself: it’s all about the math, and America is failing to train enough citizens in the right kinds of mathematics to remain dominant.
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Math Genius Has Come Up With a Wildly Simple New Way to Solve Quadratic Equations
If you studied algebra in high school (or you're learning it right now), there's a good chance you're familiar with the quadratic formula. If not, it's possible you repressed it.
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A Scheme of Heaven is a deep investigation of astrology from a scientist’s perspective
Why is astrology considered unscientific, while economics—which also uses complex mathematical formulas to 'predict' the future—is regarded as a perfectly respectable field of study, despite its many failed forecasts?
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Murderer solves ancient math problem and finds his mission
A convicted murderer in a US prison has taught himself the basics of higher mathematics, enabling him to solve a complicated arithmetic problem. And he has been passing on his math passion to his fellow inmates.
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RIP John Conway
Renowned mathematician and beloved Princeton University professor, John Horton Conway, died this week (April 11) of COVID-19. He was 82. Conway is best known as the inventor of the hugely influential and inspirational artificial life program, The Game of Life.
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Interactive model explores how different interventions affect COVID-19 spread
Potential Long-Term Intervention Strategies for COVID-19
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Louis Nirenberg, ‘One of the Great Mathematicians,’ Dies at 94
Winner of the math world’s equivalent of a Nobel, he puzzled out equations describing the vibrating of strings, the flow of heat and the movement of water.
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Can technology reduce traffic congestion, these mathemeticians say yes
Scientists at St. Petersburg State University, proposed a solution to traffic congestion…
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Why you might be counting in the wrong language
Learning numbers in a European language has probably affected your early maths ability. It turns out there are better ways to count.
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Interactive Fluid Simulation - Outpan
Interactive Fluid Simulation: Interactive Fluid Simulation MIT License Copyright (c) 2017 Pavel Dobryakov Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this...
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The Bizarre Behavior of Rotating Bodies, Explained
The intermediate axis theorem.
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Scientists Find Evidence The Human Brain Can Create Structures in Up to 11 Dimensions
Back in 2017, neuroscientists used a classic branch of maths in a totally new way to peer into the structure of our brains.
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New Proof Settles Ancient Question of How to Approximate Numbers Like Pi
The ancient Greeks wondered when “irrational” numbers can be approximated by fractions. By proving the longstanding Duffin-Schaeffer conjecture, two mathematicians have provided a complete answer.
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The Riemann Hypothesis, explained
It’s been called the most difficult problem in mathematics. What is the Riemann Hypothesis?
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Couple wins millions using lottery loophole
It was completely legal and it won them millions. Jon Wertheim reports on how Jerry Selbee and his wife Marge used "basic arithmetic" to crack the code on certain lottery games
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Researchers solve magic angle mystery
The origin of these angles in twisted bilayer graphene may be fundamentally connected to the quantum Hall effect, say Harvard researchers. By Belle Dumé.
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We've found a quicker way to multiply really big numbers
To multiply two numbers by hand take a few steps but it's something we're taught in school. When dealing with big numbers, really big numbers, we need to a quicker way to do things.
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Mathematicians have found a new way to multiply two numbers together
The multiplication you learn at school is too slow for computers, so mathematicians are always searching for better methods.
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‘Maths anxiety’ causing fear and despair in children as young as six
Children as young as six feel fear, rage and despair as a result of “mathematics anxiety”, a condition which can cause physical symptoms and behaviour problems in class, according to a study. Pupils in both primary and secondary school can find themselves locked in a cycle of despair, suffering from anxiety which harms their maths performance, which in turn leads to increased anxiety.
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Google just smashed the world record for calculating digits of pi
Happy π day! We now know the first 31.4 trillion digits of the tastiest mathematical constant
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