Breard's interest in Chinese scientific history was ignited by Chinese Mathematics: A Concise History, a book that chronicles ...

For centuries, the Pythagorean Theorem has occupied a unique position in mathematics: both elementary and profound. Its ...

Sinners made $350 million. Marty Supreme made $60 million. Hollywood looked at both numbers and decided Chalamet is the ...

It’s no secret that many of us are not too fond of mathematics and geometry, and that it is often too complex. But even so, it can be pretty mind-blowing to look back in history and discover the ...

Some of the oldest puzzles in history involve “figuring out” people’s ages. They are found in ancient texts across cultures, demonstrating a long-standing fascination with imaginative and logical ...

Hallucination is fundamental to how transformer-based language models work. In fact, it’s their greatest asset: this is the method by which language models find links between sometimes disparate ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. At the turn of the 20th century, the renowned mathematician David Hilbert had a grand ambition to bring a more rigorous, mathematical ...

Earlier this month, 36 sharp-witted high school students from around the globe stepped foot on the warm and breezy campus of Stanford University. Out of more than 4,000 students from more than 2,000 ...