In March 2025, mathematician Daniel Litt made a bet. Despite the march of progress of artificial intelligence in many fields, he believed his subject was safe, wagering with a colleague that there was ...

Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X During 2010’s cycle 14, contestants were asked to navigate swinging pendulums while walking the ...

Have you ever wondered how a computer can "recognize" your face or how an app knows which song you want to hear next? It feels like magic, but it is actually built on Mathematics. Think of math as the ...

A new Stanford study suggests math struggles may be about more than numbers. Children who had difficulty with math were less likely to adjust their thinking after making mistakes during number ...

Unlock the secrets of pendulum motion with this comprehensive physics guide on deriving the pendulum period. In this video, we walk you through the step-by-step derivation of the formula for a simple ...

Five years ago, mathematicians Dawei Chen and Quentin Gendron were trying to untangle a difficult area of algebraic geometry involving differentials, elements of calculus used to measure distance ...

In 2025, the edges of mathematics came a little more sharply into view when members of the online Busy Beaver Challenge community closed in on a huge number that threatens to defy the logical ...

The pendulum at the museum is attached to a 61-foot-long cable. It typically swings as the Earth rotates, knocking down pegs, until it suddenly stopped this month. The Houston Museum of Natural ...

In October 2024 Luke Durant, an independent researcher in San Jose, Calif., announced that he had discovered the largest known prime number—so enormous it would take years to write out in full. One ...

Jose Antonio Kast delivers a speech during the closing event of his campaign, in Santiago, Chile, Nov. 11, 2025 (Sipa photo by Cristobal Basaure Araya via AP Images). Click to share on Twitter (Opens ...

In “The Great Math War,” Jason Socrates Bardi takes on a battle for the soul of numbers that divided the experts of its day. By Jordan Ellenberg Jordan Ellenberg, a professor of mathematics at the ...