Everyone Is Capable of Mathematical Thinking—Yes, Even You
The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. David Bessis was drawn to mathematics for the same reason that many people are driven away: He didn’t understand how….
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Will Juan Soto top Shohei Ohtani’s deal? It might depend on the math
Deciding whether Juan Soto tops Shohei Ohtani for baseball’s largest contract could be in the eye of the beholder because of all the deferred money in Ohtani’s deal. Ohtani agreed….
Mathematicians Just Debunked the ‘Bunkbed Conjecture’
Their result shows the importance of not taking anything for granted, said Noga Alon, a mathematician at Princeton. “We have to be suspicious, even about things that intuitively look very….
Scientists Establish the Best Algorithm for Traversing a Map
“It’s a great algorithm,” said Erik Demaine, a computer scientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. “It’s very fast, simple, and easy to implement.” To put this procedure into practice,….
New secret math benchmark stumps AI models and PhDs alike
Epoch AI allowed Fields Medal winners Terence Tao and Timothy Gowers to review portions of the benchmark. “These are extremely challenging,” Tao said in feedback provided to Epoch. “I think….
California math and English test scores rise, but pandemic losses remain
Test scores for California public school students are trending upward — especially among Latino, Black and low-income children — but still lag behind pre-pandemic scores with a majority of all….
‘Groups’ Underpin Modern Math. Here’s How They Work
Figuring out what subgroups a group contains is one way to understand its structure. For example, the subgroups of Z6 are {0}, {0, 2, 4} and {0, 3}—the trivial subgroup,….
American kids have fallen far behind in math and reading
Sometimes, panics are overblown. Sometimes, older generations are just freaking out about the youngs, as they have since time immemorial. That’s not the case, unfortunately, with kids’ learning right now,….
Teens surprise math world with Pythagorean Theorem trigonometry proof | 60 Minutes
Teens surprise math world with Pythagorean Theorem trigonometry proof | 60 Minutes – CBS News Watch CBS News A high school teacher didn’t expect a solution when she set a….
Students Find New Evidence of the Impossibility of Complete Disorder
A new mathematic proof marks the first progress in decades on a problem about how order emerges.