The Pung family got a mixed result. The Supreme Court ruled the auction price is the baseline for compensation but sent the fairness question back to the lower court.

Through the MIT4America Calculus Project, students and alumni are tutoring students in underresourced high schools across the ...

OpenAI’s “super app” push is about keeping users inside ChatGPT and monetizing via coding/agents and enterprise workflows. Microsoft is the main distribution and cloud partner for OpenAI workloads, so ...

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 ...

One idle evening last October, Mehtaab Sawhney took up an old pastime. He began perusing the website erdosproblems.com, an updated record of the 1,179 conjectures left behind by the eccentric and ...

Fifty years ago, “fractal” was born. In a 1975 book, the Polish-French-American mathematician Benoit B. Mandelbrot coined the term to describe a family of rough, fragmented shapes that fall outside ...

Journal of Nonlinear Waves is the home for the field of nonlinear wave phenomena, broadly defined. It publishes authoritative articles on theoretical and computational aspects of nonlinear waves ...

Say you’re at a party with nine other people and everyone shakes everyone else’s hand exactly once. How many handshakes take place? This is the “handshake problem,” and it’s one of my favorites. As a ...

Abstract: Multi-manipulator systems are becoming increasingly indispensable in modern manufacturing scenes. To achieve the highest accuracy in a dual-robot manufacturing system, it is essential to ...