This compilation brings together some of the clearest examples of flat earth claims collapsing under basic logic, math, and observation. Each clip shows how the arguments fail in real time. Senate GOP ...

The second batch of “First Proof” problems is meant to evaluate AI’s usefulness for research-level math. The best model got six or seven of the ten questions right.

At 25, Kurt Gödel proved there can never be a mathematical “theory of everything.” Columnist Natalie Wolchover explores the implications. In 1931, by turning logic on itself, Kurt Gödel proved a pair ...

Also available: the recorded lectures from the 2021 course instance (most in Swedish, some in English). This repository is mainly the home of the DSLsofMath book (originating from the course lecture ...

Ananyo Bhattacharya is chief science writer at the London Institute for Mathematical Sciences and is the author of The Man from the Future (2021). In the weeks leading up to September 1891, ...

When reviewing job growth and salary information, it’s important to remember that actual numbers can vary due to many different factors—like years of experience in the role, industry of employment, ...

My work is about counting discrete things (things you can count), like the grains of sand or the grains of rice, but by using continuous objects like waves. So, they might seem like very different ...

The volume contains selected articles presented in the ZOOM conference on History of Mathematics in Jain Literature, December 2020, and also contains articles invited by the editors on specific topics ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. At the turn of the 20th century, the renowned mathematician David Hilbert had a grand ambition to bring a more rigorous, mathematical ...

If you're old enough, you probably remember getting a line from your math teacher that you need to learn the steps to an equation because "you won't always be carrying a calculator with you." In an AP ...

A documentary filmmaker and a mathematician discuss our fear of numbers and its civic costs. By Siobhan Roberts “Math is power” is the tag line of a new documentary, “Counted Out,” currently making ...