Mathematical patterns reveal profound truths about the universe and, surprisingly, about our inner lives as well. These five visual math concepts offer unique frameworks for understanding our behavior ...
The math world is losing its mind over the new solution to an Erdős problem. This is what AI found, how we missed it—and why ...
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A few minutes into a 2018 talk at the University of Michigan, Ian Tobasco picked up a large piece of paper and crumpled it into a seemingly disordered ball of chaos. He held it up for the audience to ...
In September 2019, news broke regarding progress on this 82-year-old question, thanks to prolific mathematician Terence Tao. And while the story of Tao's breakthrough is promising, the problem isn't ...
A computer chip modeled after the human brain just solved the kind of math that keeps fighter jets from shaking apart in flight simulations and power grids from collapsing in planning models. In a ...