Thirty years is a long time to live without a paycheck. If you retire at 62 and celebrate your 92nd birthday, your portfolio needs to fund groceries, property taxes, insurance premiums, and the ...

Dylan Kane likes his math curriculum. But there’s one important piece missing, he says. The 7th grade math teacher in Leadville, Colo., uses a program that teaches math skills through real-world ...

A version of this essay appeared on Matthew Yglesias’ Slow Boring, a site dedicated to offering pragmatic takes on politics ...

JavaScript is a great language. It has a simple syntax, large ecosystem and, what is most important, a great community. At the same time, we all know that JavaScript is quite a funny language with ...

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 planar Hall effect is a tabletop diagnostic tool for special quantum properties useful in basic research and technological applications. Or so it was thought, because careful calculation by Kobe ...

Ammon News - A seemingly simple sum left the internet stumped as people scrambled to remember elementary arithmetic. The sneakily complex equation was posted on X last week by the account Break the ...

There are several weird aspects to the "Anti-Weaponization Fund" established by President Donald Trump's settlement of his lawsuit against the IRS. Perhaps most puzzling of all, the amount of taxpayer ...

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 ...

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Earlier today I posed four puzzles from the Hyde Park Math Zine, a maths fanzine from Austin, Texas. Here they are again with solutions. 1. Ring it Each region has a perimeter given by its enclosed ...

Our research proves a conjecture from string theory asserting the vanishing of a specific convolution sum arising in the 4-graviton scattering amplitude in 10-dimensional type IIB string theory. The ...