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Another clever math shortcut that makes a tricky calculation much easier to work out.

This puzzle is the starting point for an area of math called sphere packing. After pondering the two-dimensional case on a ...

A fun number trick using 6 and 4 that shows just how interesting math can be.

AI is advancing rapidly. One of the major shifts in the field is that, instead of single chatbots performing individual tasks ...

After an OpenAI model presented a possible solution to the Navier-Stokes problem, mathematicians are speculating about which ...

AI personal assistants are now acting on people’s behalf in the real world—and all sorts of strange things are going wrong.