For decades, Moore's Law has defined how we track the progression of technology. Artificial intelligence is redefining it.

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A team of math and AI researchers at Microsoft Asia has designed and developed a small language model (SLM) that can be used to solve math problems. The group has posted a paper on the arXiv preprint ...

It’s surprisingly difficult to prove one of the most basic properties of a number: whether it can be written as a fraction. A ...

What happens when experts from vastly different disciplines—climate science, mathematics, and meteorology—join forces to ...

The Earth has always had a tilt to its axis of 23.5 degrees, which is why we have seasons and daylight saving time. But if you've felt a bit off-balance, you can blame your fellow humans ...

Beer is best served cold, and it turns out that math can help with that. Cláudio de Castro Pellegrini of the Federal University of São João del-Rei in Brazil recently set out to formulate an ...

Some of our astute readers noticed an apparent anomaly in the graph comparing the complexities of Shor’s algorithm and GNFS ...

At one university, for example, math and education faculty realized that their courses weren’t optimally scheduled. Introduction to elementary math was taught freshman year, first semester ...

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The European Union’s executive body is facing an embarrassing privacy scandal after it was confirmed on Friday that a Commission ad campaign on X (formerly Twitter) breached the EU’s own data ...

We investigate three of 2024’s biggest breakthroughs in mathematics, including a better way to pack spheres in high dimensions, a new way to avoid forming patterns of numbers, and an 800-page proof of ...