This requires an algorithm: students are taught to stack one number atop another and multiply each digit of the bottom number ...

At an event in London, mathematicians have made unexpectedly fast progress on formalising Fermat's last theorem using AI ...

Researchers found that some animals could “count” carrots in a test—and may have better numerical skills than dogs or horses.

During World War II, statistics helped the Allies estimate the number of enemy tanks, which proved essential in the decisive ...

The speakers discuss Netflix’s architecture for surviving extreme traffic spikes. They explain the mechanics of prioritized ...

The transcript explores Goldbach’s conjecture, the simple-looking claim that every even number greater than 2 can be written as the sum of two primes. It follows the problem from Euler and Goldbach to ...

Let’s start with what’s probably the most tired, overused joke in math: A topologist is someone who can’t tell a coffee cup from a doughnut. Both, you see, have a hole in them. Topology is usually ...

At the beginning of a recent math class, students spent six minutes discussing a topic they knew well: themselves. What’s their favorite food? Answers came in English and Spanish—“todo” (everything), ...

Nothing rivals the human brain's complexity. Its 86 billion neurons and 85 billion other cells make an estimated 100 trillion connections. If the brain were a computer, it would perform an exaflop (a ...

In early April, NASA and its Artemis II mission inspired humanity to look toward the heavens. Now that the four-person space crew has returned home, however, the public still hasn't had its fill of ...

Here’s what you should know about this increasingly important water source. When I started digging into desalination technology for a new story, I couldn’t help but obsess over the numbers. I’d known ...

San José is preparing for the return of Transitarte this week, with the annual urban arts festival set for April 10, 11 and 12 across parks, boulevards and public spaces in the capital. The festival ...