Five years ago, mathematicians Dawei Chen and Quentin Gendron were trying to untangle a difficult area of algebraic geometry involving differentials, elements of calculus used to measure distance ...

President Donald Trump, in a brief phone call with POLITICO, cast himself as the savior for a United Nations in danger of financial collapse, touting his ability to get members to pay unpaid dues. But ...

Amateur mathematicians are using artificial intelligence chatbots to solve long-standing problems, in a move that has taken professionals by surprise. While the problems in question aren’t the most ...

Over the weekend, Neel Somani, who is a software engineer, former quant researcher, and a startup founder, was testing the math skills of OpenAI’s new model when he made an unexpected discovery. After ...

Imagine Jo: Everyone in Jo's life recognizes her as an outstanding problem solver. She's the type of person who seems capable of almost anything. Jo excels at intuitive problem-solving. Over her life, ...

Bluetooth is a technology for short-range data transmission that has become so ubiquitous in recent years that we can no longer imagine life without it. This makes it all the more annoying when ...

H ave you ever met a Zionist Foucauldian? Some 30 years ago, I half-jokingly asked my fellow graduate students in a social-theory course if they had ever encountered such a creature. No one had. The ...

(THE CONVERSATION) Among high school students and adults, girls and women are much more likely to use traditional, step-by-step algorithms to solve basic math problems – such as lining up numbers to ...

UC San Diego is trying to solve a math problem. The university said a growing number of students are starting their freshman year lacking high school math proficiency. KPBS reporter Jacob Aere says ...

Dr. Toyin Ajayi has an ambitious mission: to make health care accessible to all. Ajayi is the founder and CEO of Cityblock Health, a primary care provider focused on helping underserved communities in ...

The normal distribution is a concept in statistics that assumes all values are distributed in the same pattern. It requires symmetry and consistent proportions in the distribution of values. Normal ...

In the weeks since the October 8 cease-fire between Israel and Hamas, establishing and maintaining security in Gaza has become a crucial test. Already in the days after the deal was announced, Hamas ...