AI models are starting to crack high-level math problems
Over the weekend, Neel Somani, who is a software engineer, former quant researcher, and a startup founder, was…
A Century Later, Ramanujan’s Pi Equations Are Helping Physicists Unlock the Secrets of Nature
In 1914, Indian mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan published a short paper detailing several unusual formulas for calculating the value…
Behold the Manifold, the Concept that Changed How Mathematicians View Space
The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Standing in the middle of a field, we…
A 250-Year-Old Theory Learns New Tricks
Physicists have derived a quantum version of Bayes’ rule, revealing how beliefs and probabilities update in the quantum…
Scientists Crack the Code of China’s Mysterious “Matrix Tide”
On China’s Qiantang River, witnesses recently observed an extraordinary “matrix tide,” where colliding tidal bores formed a grid…