In October 2024 I attended a workshop at Harvard University where mathematicians talked through the uses of artificial intelligence in their field. Most were less worried about the future of math than ...

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 ...

Debates over how geometry is understood and learned date back at least to the days of Plato, with more recent scholars concluding that only humans possess the foundations of this understanding.

A category-by-category look at odds on favorites, per a mathematical formula that factors in awards season data and historical trends. By Ben Zauzmer Ben Zauzmer is a contributing writer for The ...

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In late 2021, as the housing market overheated and the Federal Reserve’s benchmark interest rate hovered near zero, Tony Yang found an unconventional way to fund his down payment. He logged into his ...

Imagine that the NBA is starting from scratch, only using players from the 2020 through 2024 draft classes. How would the draft play out? We have the answer to that very question. B/R NBA experts Dan ...

Python has become one of the most popular programming languages out there, particularly for beginners and those new to the hacker/maker world. Unfortunately, while it’s easy to get something up and ...

According to Greg Brockman (@gdb), early signs of life for GPT-5 Pro demonstrate significant advancements in new mathematics capabilities, as shared on Twitter on August 20, 2025 (source: Greg ...