Math
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News
A.I. Can Write Poetry, but It Struggles With Math
A.I.’s math problem reflects how much the new technology is a break with computing’s past.
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Science
Abel Prize Awarded for Studies of Universe’s Randomness
Michel Talagrand of France has credited a brush with blindness for leading to the work that resulted in his recognition by the math equivalent of the Nobel Prize.
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Science
What Can You Do With an Einstein?
It’s been a year of endless einsteins. In March, a troupe of mathematical tilers announced that they had discovered an “aperiodic monotile,” a shape that can tile an infinite flat surface in a pattern that does not repeat — “einstein” is the ...
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Newyork
Joseph J. Kohn, Who Broke New Ground in Calculus, Dies at 91
The techniques he developed in the field of complex numbers have found use in tackling a wide range of fundamental equations in physics.
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Newyork
Half of New York City Children Passed Math and Reading Tests
The pass rates are up, but the state’s annual exams were overhauled, so the results can’t really be compared with those from last year.
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US
Robert J. Zimmer, Who Promoted Free Speech on Campus, Dies at 75
A mathematician, he was for many years the president of the University of Chicago, where he argued that civility was not a reason to silence discussion.
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Science
What Number Comes Next? Ask the Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences.
Some numbers are odd: 1, 3, 5, 7, 9, 11, 13, 15 … Some are even: 2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 12, 14, 16 … And then there are the puzzling “eban” numbers: 2, 4, 6, 30, 32, 34, 36, 40 … What number comes next? And why? These are questions that Neil Sloane, a ...