When your AI assistant calculates revenue, bonuses, VAT or financial summaries, it isn’t doing math. It’s telling a convincing story about numbers.

Tao: Today there are a lot of very tedious types of mathematics that we don’t like doing, so we look for clever ways to get ...

Since ancient Greece, researchers have tried to isolate special rational points on curves. Now they have the first ever formula that applies uniformly to all curves ...

Exploring AI valuations through math, myth, rationalization, opacity, strategic value, and the frenzy shaping private markets.

Developers are not political actors when they underwrite a project— they are mathematicians, our columnist writes.

A quick thought experiment – imagine asking students to solve the problem ½ + ¼. How do they respond? How do they get to those responses? To many, this will look like a simple problem using familiar ...

Some kids don’t struggle with math because they “don’t get numbers,” but because their brains have trouble adjusting when they make mistakes. Credit: Shutterstock Math struggles in kids may stem from ...

It’s two decimal digits long, it’s prime, it’s a palindrome and it’s the number of players in a football team. Let’s hear it for “legs” eleven! Today’s puzzles reveal interesting properties about the ...