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Kevin Lieber of Vsauce2 explores the fascinating mathematical structures found within Pascal's triangle and probability. 2 dead in Michigan mall shooting, victims identified Florida beach lightning ...

Kevin Lieber of Vsauce2 explores the unexpected math behind patterns compared to chaotic probability.

With automated proof-checkers, a problem can be broken up into small chunks, solved bit-by-bit, then reassembled with confidence that every piece is correct. For some, this heralds a new area in ...

Liam Price has no formal training in mathematics and has yet to attend university, but last month, he managed to break new ground in mathematical research — with the help of ChatGPT. Posting on the ...

Mathematician Kevin Buzzard of Imperial College London is training computers how to prove one of the most famous problems in math history: Fermat’s last theorem. Resolving the problem isn’t the point.

Recently, a cheerful 100-year-old message in a bottle was found on the south-west coast of Australia. In it, a world war one soldier proclaimed to be “as happy as Larry”. If you’re a betting person, ...

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 ...

Today’s puzzles all come from … the Hyde Park Math Zine! This delightful publication is written in pen on a single folded sheet of paper, has a print run of 30 copies, and is distributed in the ...

Prism is a ChatGPT-powered text editor that automates much of the work involved in writing scientific papers. OpenAI just revealed what its new in-house team, OpenAI for Science, has been up to. The ...

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