How can you have a proof without proving anything? Mathematicians found a way and, in the process, came to blows over it – ...

Abstract: Microscopy cell segmentation is a crucial step in biological image analysis and a challenging task. In recent years, deep learning has been widely used to tackle this task, with promising ...

In mid-May, OpenAI announced that an internal AI model had disproved the Erdős unit distance conjecture, a famous problem in discrete geometry that had stumped human mathematicians for the last 80 ...

In October 2024 I attended a workshop at Harvard University where mathematicians talked through the uses of artificial intelligence in their field. Most were less worried about the future of math than ...

Tired of having to hold down the Fn key every time you want to use your function keys on Windows 11? You’re not the only one. Some laptops let you toggle Fn Lock with shortcuts like Fn + Esc, Fn + ...

You can use these live scripts as demonstrations in lectures, class activities, or interactive assignments outside class. In the first script, students learn to derive transfer functions from ODEs and ...

What Are Pulmonary Function Tests (PFTs)? Pulmonary function tests (PFTs) are lung tests. They show how well your lungs work. They’re noninvasive, which means that the doctor doesn’t cut you or put ...

If you’ve ever tried to use ChatGPT as a calculator, you’ve almost certainly noticed its dyscalculia: The chatbot is bad at math. And it’s not unique among AI in this regard. But tokenization isn’t ...

If you’ve ever “gone with your gut” to make a decision or felt “butterflies in your stomach” when nervous, you’re likely getting signals from an unexpected source: your second brain. Hidden in the ...

If OpenAI's new model can solve grade-school math, it could pave the way for more powerful systems. This story is from The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your ...