In 1914, Indian mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan published a short paper detailing several unusual formulas for calculating ...

One day in November, a product strategist we’ll call Michelle (not her real name), logged into her LinkedIn account and switched her gender to male. She also changed her name to Michael, she told ...

In a world run by computers, there is one algorithm that stands above all the rest. It powers search engines, encrypts your data, guides rockets, runs simulations, and makes the modern digital ...

All of modern mathematics is built on the foundation of set theory, the study of how to organize abstract collections of objects. But in general, research mathematicians don’t need to think about it ...

Sheila Hardin doesn’t teach high school math for the money or for the fame — though she’s at least got the latter. In October, the Oak Park River Forest High School veteran of 31 years was named the ...

Why the challenge of truly representative democracy is so complex. Moon Duchin, who leads the University of Chicago’s Data and Democracy Research Initiative, explores how math can help solve ...

You’re at the checkout screen after an online shopping spree, ready to enter your credit card number. You type it in and instantly see a red error message ...

The handling of missing data in cognitive diagnostic assessment is an important issue. The Random Forest Threshold Imputation (RFTI) method proposed by You et al. in 2023 is specifically designed for ...

ABSTRACT: The advent of the internet, as we all know, has brought about a significant change in human interaction and business operations around the world; yet, this evolution has also been marked by ...

Google’s DeepMind research division claims its newest AI agent marks a significant step toward using the technology to tackle big problems in math and science. The system, known as AlphaEvolve, is ...