A New AI Math Startup Just Cracked 4 Previously Unsolved Problems
Five years ago, mathematicians Dawei Chen and Quentin Gendron were trying to untangle a difficult area of algebraic…
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…
Research Reveals the Optimal Way to Optimize
The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. In 1939, upon arriving late to his statistics…
Education Department’s dismantling leaves schools fearing disruption
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration says its plan to dismantle the Education Department offers a fix for…
Trump’s wind-down of the Education Department leaves schools fearing disruption
WASHINGTON — The Trump administration says its plan to dismantle the Education Department offers a fix for the…
Quantum Physics May Predict the Next Financial Crash, New Study Finds
When Albert Einstein first debated the strange logic of quantum mechanics, he probably didn’t imagine his ideas might one…
Do We Live in the Matrix? Physicists Finally Have Answer
You can stop looking for glitches in the Matrix—it’s finally been proven that our universe is not merely…
The Hidden Math of Ocean Waves
In 2011, Deconinck and Oliveras simulated different disturbances with higher and higher frequencies and watched what happened to…
After More Than Three Centuries, a Geometry Problem That Originated with a Royal Bet Is Solved
Prince Rupert (left) and Jakob Steininger (right) credit, released as a courtesy of Mr. Steininger A pair of…
Mathematician finds brilliant solution to 50-year-old Mobius strip puzzle
A Möbius strip made with paper and adhesive tape. Credit: Wikimedia Commons. Imagine holding a strip of paper.…
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…