Humpty Dumpty had all the king's horses and all the king's men, but it wasn't enough to put him back together again. This ...

Axiom Math says its AxiomProver system has produced a machine-checked Lean 4 proof of the strongest known result on gaps ...

Mojo programming language reaches 1.0 stable release after three years of API churn, ending breaking changes for production developers. An Oak Ridge National Laboratory study found Mojo GPU kernels ...

David E. Dunning explores how mathematical notation is a social, world-building technology. It’s natural to think of math as being fundamentally abstract. Whether it’s invented or discovered, its ...

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 ...

This year has seen some amazing advancements in fundamental mathematics. Researchers have made breakthroughs in geometry, topology, chaos theory, and more. And a startling three of our top 10 ...

At the lowest point of the Civil War, Abraham Lincoln characterized the core factor between victory and defeat as finding a general who understood the “awful arithmetic” of war. War is a contest of ...

Python has become one of the most popular programming languages out there, particularly for beginners and those new to the hacker/maker world. Unfortunately, while it’s easy to get something up and ...

For the past several years, America has been using its young people as lab rats in a sweeping, if not exactly thought-out, education experiment. Schools across the country have been lowering standards ...

In programming—and computer science in general—an expression is something which can be evaluated—that is, a syntactically valid combination of constants, variables, functions, and operators which ...

When presenting expressions, we saw examples of common arithmetic operations: addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division. Here we will present two additional operations which are closely ...