Stream now with KPBS Passport on KPBS+ / Watch Monday, Feb. 16 and Feb. 17 at 11 p.m. on KPBS TV JOURNEYS OF BLACK MATHEMATICIANS is a two-part series that traces the cultural evolution of Black ...

The race is on to develop an artificial intelligence that can do pure mathematics, and top mathematicians just threw down the gauntlet with an exam of actual, unsolved problems that are relevant to ...

Large language models struggle to solve research-level math questions. It takes a human to assess just how poorly they perform. By Siobhan Roberts A few weeks ago, a high school student emailed Martin ...

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Why does cancer sometimes recur even after successful treatment, or why do some bacteria survive despite the use of powerful antibiotics? One of the key culprits identified is "biological ...

Yosra Barkaoui’s doctoral dissertation in mathematics at the University of Vaasa, Finland, has successfully generalised a fundamental theorem that has been limited to the bounded case. The research ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Standing in the middle of a field, we can easily forget that we live on a round planet. We’re so small in comparison to the Earth that ...

Ken Ono’s career as one of the world’s most prominent mathematicians has taken him to places that he never could have fathomed. The renowned University of Virginia professor regularly ventures far ...

Mathematicians may have a better way to measure agreement across different datasets. Agreement affects reproducibility, meta-analysis, and prediction to fill in missing data points. We need a more ...

In “The Great Math War,” Jason Socrates Bardi takes on a battle for the soul of numbers that divided the experts of its day. By Jordan Ellenberg Jordan Ellenberg, a professor of mathematics at the ...

For years, JavaScript has reigned as the undisputed language of the web, powering everything from single-page apps to massive enterprise systems through frameworks like React, Angular, and Vue. But ...