When the Leiden Declaration on Artificial Intelligence and Mathematics went live on 2 June 2026, things moved quickly. The ...

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Researchers at the University of Science and Technology of China have developed a new reinforcement learning (RL) framework that helps train large language models (LLMs) for complex agentic tasks ...

Descriptive set theorists study the niche mathematics of infinity. Now, they’ve shown that their problems can be rewritten in the concrete language of algorithms. All of modern mathematics is built on ...

For decades, philosophers, technologists, and even billionaires like Elon Musk have toyed with the idea that our universe might be a highly sophisticated computer simulation. The idea represents one ...

The idea that we might be living inside a vast computer simulation, much like in The Matrix, has fascinated philosophers and scientists for years. But a new study from researchers at the University of ...

The Simulated Bifurcation (SB) algorithm is a fast and highly parallelizable state-of-the-art algorithm for quadratic combinatorial optimization inspired by quantum physics and spins dynamics. It ...

In his keynote address, Sameer Prabhu, Worldwide Industry Marketing Director at MathWorks, spoke on “Driving the Future: Transformational Changes in the Automotive Industry.” He emphasized how ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. One July afternoon in 2024, Ryan Williams set out to prove himself wrong. Two months had passed since he’d hit upon a startling ...

One July afternoon in 2024, Ryan Williams set out to prove himself wrong. Two months had passed since he’d hit upon a startling discovery about the relationship between time and memory in computing.

Sudoku fan? After diving into the math behind the game, test your skills with our very own puzzles in SciAm Games! Computer science seemingly rides a curve of unstoppable progress. Mere decades took ...