The Best Articles in Math

It has been thought of as many things: a pointlike object, an excitation of a field, a speck of pure math that has cut into reality. But never has physicists’ conception of a particle changed more…

If a shape has equal sides with 90 degree angles between them then it's a square, right? Well, not quite...

If you’ve ever tripped up over the term ‘Bayesian’ while reading up on data or tech, fear not. Strip away the jargon and notation, and even the mathematics-averse can make sense of the simple yet…

Solve these puzzle questions to level up your Wordle game.

When a theory breaks, you learn how to build it better.

«ASK WEIRD QUESTIONS Einstein had a wild imagination. He asked himself questions like: What would he feel if he rode an elevator through outer space? What would he see if he chased a beam of light?»

An ancient puzzle leads ultimately to a remarkable observation on the malleable nature of infinite sums

It’s time to add another family of emulated older technology to the Internet Archive. The vast majority of platforms within what we call The Emularity happens because of the work of MAME Team, which…

This page has been Tagged As Maths. One of my favourite Limited Audience Jokes (although technically it's actually a riddle) goes: Added after seeing some discussion ... This is not intended to…

A surprisingly beautiful blend of algebra, geometry, and number theory

The arts, sport, acquisition of complex life skills: all must be sacrificed on the altar of the easily measurable, says Guardian columnist Simon Jenkins

Inspired by the results of a game-playing neural network, mathematicians have been making unexpected advances on an age-old math problem.

Training the large neural networks behind many modern AI tools requires real computational might: OpenAI’s most advanced language model GPT-3 required a million billion billions of operations to train, and cost about US $5 million in compute time. Some researchers now think they have a better way.

Recent explorations of unique geometric worlds reveal perplexing patterns, including the Fibonacci sequence and the golden ratio.

Far from being an abstract mathematical curiosity, knot theory has driven many findings in math and beyond.

In our paper, published today in Nature, we introduce AlphaTensor, the first artificial intelligence (AI) system for discovering novel, efficient, and provably correct algorithms for fundamental tasks…

When logic fails to make sense of a world noisy with inconsistency, paraconsistent logics hold out (im)possible solutions

Discussion on an entry level data science interview question

If philosophers and mathematicians struggle with probability, can gamblers really hope to grasp their losing game?

«The mathematics of the games, including their rules and payout schedules, assures the house will profit in aggregate, regardless of individual behaviour.»

Math teachers have stymied students for hundreds of years by sticking goats in strangely shaped fields. Learn why one grazing goat problem has stumped mathematicians for more than a century.

What makes a proof stronger than a guess? What does evidence look like in the realm of mathematical abstraction? Hear the mathematician Melanie Matchett Wood explain how probability helps to guide…