The transcript explores Goldbach’s conjecture, the simple-looking claim that every even number greater than 2 can be written ...

The Sports Analytics Research Group employs quantitative analysis to give teams the hard numbers they need to perform better ...

Tarek Mansour, the CEO of Kalshi, thinks his company can fundamentally change how you receive news and information.

Portugal came to Miami as many people's pick to win the whole thing and left with a point, second place, and very little to ...

The Filet-O-Fish history traces to a struggling Cincinnati franchise and a centuries-old Catholic Church rule. The post ...

ChatGPT's breakthrough is not what it seems.

Artificial intelligence is mastering the kinds of projects that have long helped to build the careers of young mathematicians. What does that mean for their future? Credit...Illustrations by Yoshi ...

The second batch of “First Proof” problems is meant to evaluate AI’s usefulness for research-level math. The best model got six or seven of the ten questions right.

Think about placing dots on a flat surface. You want as many pairs as possible to be separated by the same distance. For any amount of dots, what is the greatest possible number of pairs that can be ...

Across the front, it declares in italic script, “I’m too pretty to do math”. While some may see it as a joke, it is sparking ...

Place any number of dots on a two-dimensional plane—say, a piece of paper—and measure the distance between each pair. If you rearrange the dots, how many pairs could be positioned exactly the same ...