A documentary filmmaker and a mathematician discuss our fear of numbers and its civic costs.
Tag: Mathematics
For Epidemics to Cross Oceans, Viruses on Ships Had to Beat the Odds
In the era when people traveled by sailing ship and steamer, illnesses usually burned themselves out before boats reached shore, a new study finds.
AlphaProof, a New A.I. from Google DeepMind, Scores Big at the International Math Olympiad
A.I. is getting good at math — and might soon make a worthy collaborator for humans.
A Mammoth DNA Discovery Helps Map an Ancient Genome in 3-D
A “fossil chromosome” preserves the structure of a woolly mammoth’s genome — and offers a better grasp of how it once worked.
The Rubik Cube Turns 50
Mathematicians and hobbyists have had a half-century of fun exploring the 43 billion billion permutations of Erno Rubik’s creation.
A.I.’s Latest Challenge: the Math Olympics
Watch out, nerdy high schoolers, AlphaGeometry is coming for your mathematical lunch.
What Can You Do With an Einstein?
Earlier this year, mathematicians discovered a unique shape. Now do-it-yourselfers have found ingenious ways to put it to use.
What Can You Do With an Einstein?
Earlier this year, mathematicians discovered a unique shape. Now do-it-yourselfers have found ingenious ways to put it to use.
Math Scores Dropped Globally, but the U.S. Still Trails Other Countries
In a global exam for 15-year-olds, only a handful of places, including Singapore, Japan and Australia, kept math performance high through the pandemic.
To Wear the Sudoku Crown, One Must Solve Any Number of Puzzles
Pens, pencils and a facility with numbers. Also helpful: earplugs, plushies, a water bottle, calming herbal oil and the occasional “wild bifurcation” (a.k.a. a wild guess).