Last month, OpenAI announced that its latest version of ChatGPT had solved a major math problem, one that had stumped experts ...

One of the most hilarious things you can do with an LLM-based chatbot is to ask it to do calculations. If it’s a well-written ...

Kevin Lieber of Vsauce2 explores the unexpected math behind patterns compared to chaotic probability.

In the minds of many people, math lives in the classroom—on blackboards, in textbooks, and in tests. New research from Amber ...

Encryption systems rely on “random” numbers, but conventional computers can’t generate them perfectly. New research shows that quantum physics can. By Alexander Nazaryan Researchers in Switzerland ...

From counting sheep to cows jumping over the moon, bedtime is full of math traditions and opportunities to use math talk. Try ...

In this video, we provide essential "math help" for the "ged test", specifically addressing problems where a calculator is not allowed. This "math tutorial" covers 12 different "math problem" examples ...

In October 2024 I attended a workshop at Harvard University where mathematicians talked through the uses of artificial intelligence in their field. Most were less worried about the future of math than ...

A physicist challenges the core idea of quantum mechanics, that events are truly random. He says a hidden framework of rules may influence outcomes. That’s because our current math makes quantum ...

More than 100 years ago Hungarian-born mathematician George Pólya found himself trapped in a loop of social awkwardness. A professor at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, he enjoyed ...

Eeny, meeny, miny, mo, catch a tiger by the toe – so the rhyme goes. But even children know that counting-out rhymes like this are no help at making a truly random choice. Perhaps you remember when ...