Mathematics' great tale about the man who tamed infinity just got a messy rewrite. In Quanta Magazine, Joseph Howlett reports ...

Mathematicians and physicists often boast about their ‘Erdős number’, defined by their degrees of separation from him in ...

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The seventh graders in Maddie Hines’ project-based math class in North Portland are learning all about how to run sophisticated experiments where they come up with a hypothesis, test it out using the ...

Practical anonymous credential systems are generally built around sigma-protocol ZK proofs. This requires that credentials be based on specially formed signatures. Here we ask whether we can instead ...

Scalar Magnitudes are quantities that conserve their value and form under transformations of translation and rotation, or changes between coordinate systems (Cartesian, polar, spherical, etc.) ...

IT is unfortunate that F. P. Wolfkehl's legacy of a prize for settling the vexed question of “Fermat's Last Theorem” should have stimulated such a large erroneous mathematical literature. Most of the ...

Can artificial intelligence allow computers to ensure safe autonomous systems and advance optimization? Two Princeton professors believe it can, and they received a research grant earlier this year to ...

The Probabilistically Checkable Proofs (PCP) Theorem (Arora-Safra, Arora-Lund-Motwani-Szegedy-Sudan, 1992) states that every mathematical proof can be written in a format that allows probabilistic ...