Math Stories

Could a 'Math Genius' AI Co-author Proofs Within Three Years? 71
Canadian Math Prodigy Allegedly Stole $65 Million In Crypto 85
How a Secretive Gambler Called 'The Joker' Beat the Texas Lottery 113
Leaving Money on the Table 54
JPMorgan Says Quantum Experiment Generated Truly Random Numbers 111
India's 'Human Calculator Kid' Shatters 6 World Records In a Single Day 39
Children's Arithmetic Skills Do Not Transfer Between Applied and Academic Mathematics 100
'Magical' Efficient-Market Theory Rebuked in Era of Passive Investing 57
Rational or Not? This Basic Math Question Took Decades To Answer. 49
Huge Math Error Corrected In Black Plastic Study 105
Does Casio's New Calculator Watch Take You Back To 6th Grade Math Class? 78
AI Systems Solve Just 2% of Advanced Maths Problems in New Benchmark Test 82
Australian Mathematicians Debunk 'Infinite Monkey Theorem' 124
Former Nvidia Engineer Discovers 41-Million-Digit Prime 29
Physicist Reveals Why You Should Run in The Rain 116
A Calculator's Most Important Button Has Been Removed 108
52nd Known Mersenne Prime Found 61
Researchers Claim New Technique Slashes AI Energy Use By 95% 115
Are Professional Forecasters Overconfident? 32
The Cheating Scandal Rocking the World of Elite High-School Math 28
Google DeepMind's AI Systems Can Now Solve Complex Math Problems 40
US Wins Math Olympiad For First Time In 21 Years 60
Curricula From Bill Gates-Backed 'Illustrative Math' Required In NYC High Schools 90
The Rubik's Cube Turns 50 18
Researchers Upend AI Status Quo By Eliminating Matrix Multiplication In LLMs 72
Mathematician Reveals 'Equals' Has More Than One Meaning In Math 118
Apple Made an iPad Calculator App After 14 Years 62
Crows Can 'Count' Out Loud, Study Shows 39
A Chess Formula Is Taking Over the World 28
73-Year-Old Clifford Stoll Is Now Selling Klein Bottles 47
Pythagoras Was Wrong: There Are No Universal Musical Harmonies, Study Finds 73
Pi Calculated to 105 Trillion Digits. (Stored on 1 Petabyte of SSDs) 95
Algebra To Return To San Francisco Middle Schools This Fall 97
Mathematicians Finally Solved Feynman's 'Reverse Sprinkler' Problem 58
How Much of the World Is It Possible to Model? 45
Google DeepMind's New AI System Can Solve Complex Geometry Problems 10
There's a Big Difference In How Your Brain Processes the Numbers 4 and 5 81
30 Years of Donald Knuth's 'Christmas Lectures' Are Online - Including 2023's 29
World Modelling and 'The Personal, Political Art of Board-Game Design' 10
Google DeepMind Uses LLM To Solve Unsolvable Math Problem 48
US Students' Math Scores Plunge In Global Education Assessment 131
A World Record In Race Walking Is Erased After the Course Was Measured Wrong 59
Mathematician Warns US Spies May Be Weakening Next-Gen Encryption 78
For the First Time, Research Reveals Crows Use Statistical Logic 40
CalTech To Accept Khan Academy Success As Option For Admission 35
ChatGPT Is Getting Dumber at Basic Math 91
Here's How We Could Begin Decoding an Alien Message Using Math 64
US Reading and Math Scores Drop To Lowest Level In Decades 248
Scientists Finally Solved the Mystery of How the Mayan Calendar Works 97
NYT Debuts Digits, the Math Version of Wordle 17
Mathematicians Invent New 'Einstein' Shape 50
A Geometric Shape That Does Not Repeat Itself When Tiled 72
UK PM Rishi Sunak To Propose Compulsory Math To Students Up To 18 110
Donald Knuth's 2022 'Christmas Tree' Lecture Is About Trees 11
Computer Program For Particle Physics At Risk of Obsolescence 105
Should Functional Programming Be the Future of Software Development? 186
Why Mathematicians Study Knots 19
Math Scores Fell In Nearly Every State, Reading Dipped On National Exam 196
How a Mathematician-Magician Revealed a Casino Loophole 102
DeepMind Breaks 50-Year Math Record Using AI; New Record Falls a Week Later 30
433 People Won the Philippines Lottery. Was it Luck - or Cheating? 46
DeepMind's Game-Playing AI Has Beaten a 50-Year-Old Record In Computer Science 91
Saul Kripke, Philosopher Who Found Truths In Semantics, Dies At 81 31
Does Computer Programming Really Help Kids Learn Math? 218
China Punishes 27 People Over 'Tragically Ugly' Illustrations In Maths Textbook 81
A New Study Overturns 100-Year-Old Understanding of Color Perception 67
At Long Last, Mathematical Proof That Black Holes Are Stable 75
Fields Medals in Mathematics Won by Four Under Age 40 11
Google Cloud Calculates Pi To 100 Trillion Digits 105
Fish Can Learn Basic Arithmetic 30
Linux Random Number Generator Sees Major Improvements 80
'To Keep Students in STEM fields, Let's Weed Out the Weed-Out Math Classes' 365
Pi Day 2022 Has Begun 95
Mathematicians Protest Russia Hosting Major Conference 69
Children May Instinctively Know How To Do Division Even Before Hitting the Books, Study Finds 48
Harvard Mathematician Proves 150-Year Old Chess Puzzle 30
Researchers Use Tiny Magnetic Swirls To Generate True Random Numbers 72
A Conway 'Game of Life' Conjecture Settled After 29 years 54
Mathematician Hurls Structure and Disorder Into Century-Old Problem 15
'When a Newspaper Publishes an Unsolvable Puzzle' 23
DeepMind Cracks 'Knot' Conjecture That Bedeviled Mathematicians For Decades 21
Researchers Claim Locally-Testable-Code Breakthrough With Exotic Multi-Dimensional Graph 62
California Moves To Recommend Delaying Algebra To 9th Grade Statewide 639
The 50-year-old Problem That Eludes Theoretical Computer Science 113
A Math Teacher is Putting Calculus Lessons on Pornhub 57
Mathematicians Prove Melting Ice Stays Smooth 22
Simple Mathematical Law Predicts Movement In Cities Around the World 54
Mathematical Model Predicts Best Way To Build Muscle 67
Scientists Calculate Pi To 62.8 Trillion Digits 123
Ask Slashdot: Is There a 'Standard' Way of Formatting Numbers? 84
Oregon Law Allows Students To Graduate Without Proving They Can Write Or Do Math 337
Australian Mathematician Discovers Applied Geometry Engraved on 3,700-year-old Tablet 81
French Engineer Claims He's Solved the Zodiac Killer's Final Code 57
Mathematicians Welcome Computer-Assisted Proof in 'Grand Unification' Theory 36
When Graphs Are a Matter of Life and Death 122
Adding Is Favored Over Subtracting In Problem Solving 90
The Solution of the Zodiac Killer's 340-Character Cipher 46
Quantum Computer Solves Decades-Old Problem Three Million Times Faster Than a Classical Computer 77
Machines Are Inventing New Math We've Never Seen 44
Quixotic Californian Crusade To Officially Recognize the Hellabyte 128
Calculations Show It'll Be Impossible To Control a Super-Intelligent AI 194
New XPrize Challenge: Predicting Covid-19's Spread and Prescribing Interventions 22
The Lasting Lessons of John Conway's Game of Life 84
AI Solves Schrodinger's Equation 67
Are Fragments of Energy the Fundamental Building Blocks of the Universe? 99
The Best Way To Win a Horse Race? Mathematicians May Have the Answer 52
Physicists Nail Down the 'Magic Number' That Shapes the Universe 177
South Africa's Lottery Probed As 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 and 10 Drawn 195
Assigning Homework Exacerbates Class Divides, Researchers Find 312
Computer Scientists Achieve 'Crown Jewel' of Cryptography 69
Microsoft Overhauls Excel With Live Custom Data Types 27
Winning Bid: How Auction Theory Took the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics 18
Computer Scientists Break Traveling Salesperson Record 72
Teenager on TiKTok Resurrects an Essential Question: What is Math? 160
'Why Modeling the Spread of COVID-19 Is So Damn Hard' 117
UK Mathematician Wins Richest Prize in Academia For His Work On Stochastic Analysis 21
Mathematicians Finally Answer 2,000-Year-Old Question About Dodecahedrons 31
Could Randomness Theory Hold Key To Internet Security? 50
Decimal Point Error Causes Etsy To Massively Overcharge For Shipping Labels 43
Is There a Sorting Algorithm Faster than Quicksort and Timsort? 130
The Math of Social Distancing Is a Lesson in Geometry 87
Mathematician Ronald Graham Dies At 84 14
The 'Useless' Perspective That Transformed Mathematics 21
Texas Instruments Makes It Harder to Run Programs on its Calculators 126
The Public Do Not Understand Logarithmic Graphs Used To Portray COVID-19 349
Sudoku as Spectator Sport is Unlikely Lockdown Hit 17
Stephen Wolfram Presents a Path to The Fundamental Theory of Physics 166
John Conway, Game of Life Author, Dies At 82 of COVID-19 52
Mathematical Proof of the ABC Conjecture Will Be Published 39
MIT Celebrates 'Pi Day' With Star Wars-Themed Video 10
Freeman Dyson, Visionary Technologist, Is Dead at 96 84
Can You Solve the 'Hanging Cable' Problem, Used as an Amazon Interview Question? 283
Andrew Yang Drops Out of Presidential Race 329
Mathematicians Prove Universal Law of Turbulence 21
EPA Reasoning For Gutting Fuel-Economy Rule Doesn't Hold Up, Senator Finds 93
Major Breakthrough In Quantum Computing Shows That MIP* = RE 28
'Why the Foundations of Physics Have Not Progressed For 40 Years' 231
MIT Scientists Made a Shape-Shifting Material that Morphs Into a Human Face 24
Why Some Rope Knots Hold Better Than Others 45
A Computer Made From DNA Can Compute the Square Root of 900 36
Microsoft Wants Schoolchildren Playing Minecraft To Learn Math 39
Facebook Has a Neural Network That Can Do Advanced Math 36
Tony Brooker, Pioneer of Computer Programming, Dies At 94 26
Mathematician Proves Huge Result on 'Dangerous' Problem 167
Mathematicians Catch a Pattern By Figuring Out How To Avoid It 26
How Texas Instruments Monopolized Math Class 220
Finland Has an App Showing Shopping's True Carbon Footprint 57
US Workers Show Little Improvement In 21st Century Skills 88
AI Cracks Centuries-Old 'Three Body Problem' In Under a Second 146
Mathematician Solves 48-Year-Old Problem, Finds New Way To Multiply 107
Should High School Computer Science Classes Count as a Math Credit? 222
Da Vinci Bridge Design Holds Up Even After 500 Years, MIT Proves 79
Number Theorist Fears All Published Math Is Wrong 123
Two Mathematicians Solve Old Math Riddle, Possibly the Meaning of Life 93
How One City Saved $5 Million by Routing School Buses with an Algorithm 85
Dark Matter May Predate the Big Bang, New Math Suggests 112
Decades-Old Computer Science 'Boolean Sensitivity' Conjecture Solved in Two Pages 101
Physicist Solves 2,000-Year-Old Optical Problem 153
Remembering The ENIAC Programmers 85
The League of Entropy Forms To Offer Acts of Public Randomness 66
A 53-Year-Old Network Coloring Conjecture Is Disproved 49
Bees Can Link Symbols To Numbers, Study Finds 51
Researchers Solve Mystery of the Galaxy With No Dark Matter 102
The Geometry of An Electron Determined For the First Time 59
How a Professor Beat Roulette, Crediting a Non-Existent Supercomputer 156
Measurements Confirm Universe Is Expanding Faster Than Expected 186
LeBron James' STEM-Based School Is Showing Promise 102
Old-School Slashdotter Discovers and Solves Longstanding Flaw In Basic Calculus 222
Windows 10 Calculator Will Soon Be Able To Graph Math Equations 130
Is Statistical Significance Significant? 184
Kids Have 'Math Anxiety' Thanks To Parents and Teachers, Report Finds 228
Musician Creates a Million-Hour Song Based On the Number Pi 65
Google Smashes the World Record For Calculating Digits of Pi 132
CSS To Get Support For Trigonometry Functions 135
Ajit Pai's Rosy Broadband Deployment Claim May Be Based On Gigantic Error 121
Your GPS Devices May Stop Working On April 6 If You Don't Or Can't Update Firmware 149
In China, Some Teachers Are Using AI To Grade Homework 58
Bees Can Solve Math Problems With Addition and Subtraction 72
Legendary Mathematician Sir Michael Atiyah Dies at Age 89 38
Oregon Unconstitutionally Fined a Man $500 for Saying 'I am an Engineer,' Federal Judge Rules 331
51st Known Mersenne Prime Number Found 65
An Amoeba-Based Computer Found Solutions To 8-City Traveling Salesman Problem 87
How Nature Defies Math in Keeping Ecosystems Stable 103
Mystery Math Whiz and Novelist Advance Permutation Problem 108
Quantum Computers Will Break the Encryption that Protects the Internet 166
Struggle With Statistics? Your 'Fixed Mindset' Might Be To Blame 151
Economics Nobel Laureate Paul Romer Is a Python Programming Convert 106
Study of 1.6 Million Grades Shows Little Gender Difference in Math and Science at School 370
Famed Mathematician Claims Proof of 160-Year-Old Riemann Hypothesis 193
Titans of Mathematics Clash Over Epic Proof of ABC Conjecture 105
China Now the Most Prolific Contributor To Physical Sciences, Engineering, and Math 201
This is the Story of the 1970s Great Calculator Race 187
Physicists Measure Gravity With Record Precision 161
Sportsbooks Start Refusing More Bets From 'Wise Guys' Trying To Win 167
Science Confirms That Women's Pockets Suck For Smartphones 277
Mathematicians Solve Age-Old Spaghetti Mystery 73
Tesla Is Building Its Own AI Chips For Self-Driving Cars 157
Fields Medals Awarded To 4 Mathematicians 75
The Peculiar Math That Could Underlie the Laws of Nature 242
Can Nike's $250 Running Shoes Make You Run Faster? NYT Analysis Says Yes 60
Stonehenge Builders Used Pythagoras' Theorem 2,000 Years Before He Was Born 183
Honeybees Seem To Understand the Notion of Zero, Study Finds 154
Canada's 'Random' Immigration Lottery Uses Microsoft Excel, Which Isn't Actually Random 224
Jay-Z's Tidal Accused of Faking Kanye West, Beyonce Streaming Numbers 43
60-Year-Old Maths Problem Partly Solved By Amateur 161
The Longest Straight Path You Could Travel On Water Without Hitting Land 141
Did Harvard Scientists Predict The End of the Universe? 155
Scientists Explain the Sound of Knuckle Cracking 86
Researcher Admits Study That Claimed Uber Drivers Earn $3.37 An Hour Was Not Correct 101
Math Shows Some Black Holes Erase Your Past and Give You Unlimited Futures 190
This Chinese Math Problem Has No Answer. Perhaps, It Has a Lot of Them. 443
Has the Decades-Old Floating Point Error Problem Been Solved? 174
Largest Prime Number Discovered – With More Than 23m Digits 117
Math Says You're Driving Wrong and It's Slowing Us All Down 404
How Pirates Of The Caribbean Hijacked America's Metric System 440
CMU Researchers Reveal How Their AI Beat The World's Top Poker Players 36
Astronomers Have Come Up With a Better Way To Weigh Millions of Solitary Stars 43
Destiny 2 Misrepresented XP Gains To Its Players Until the Developers Got Caught 112
Devs Working To Stop Go Math Error Bugging Crypto Software 73
Scientists Have Mathematical Proof That It's Impossible To Stop Aging 177
How Data Science Powered the Search for MH370 133
The Geometry of Islamic Art Becomes a Treasure of a Game 213
Memorial Set For 'Pi Day' Creator 56
One of the World's Most Influential Math Texts is Getting a Beautiful, Minimalist Edition 81
Mathematician Who Claimed 'P Is Not Equal To NP' Says His Proof Is Wrong 234
Mathematicians Race To Debunk German Man Who Claimed To Solve The 'P Versus NP' Problem 156
Ancient Tablet Reveals Babylonians Discovered Trigonometry 83
New Work Suggests That P Is Not Equal To NP 147
MIT Team's School-Bus Algorithm Could Save $5M and 1M Bus Miles 104
Math Journal Editors Resign To Start Rival Journal That Will Be Free To Read 59
A New Sampling Algorithm Could Eliminate Sensor Saturation 135
Crypto-Bashing Prime Minister Argues The Laws Of Mathematics Don't Apply In Australia 330
Mathematical Biology Is Our Secret Weapon In the Fight Against Disease 57
The Quirky Habits of Certified Science Geniuses 190
When AI Botches Your Medical Diagnosis, Who's To Blame? 200
The Reign of the $100 Graphing Calculator Required By Every US Math Class Is Finally Ending 281
Oregon Fines Man For Writing a Complaint Email Stating 'I Am An Engineer' 734
More Compulsory Math Lessons Do Not Encourage Women To Pursue STEM Careers, Study Finds 239
Cooling To Absolute Zero Mathematically Outlawed After a Century 210
This Is How the Number 3.14 Got the Name 'Pi' 133
How Algorithms May Affect You 85
Pioneering Data Genius Hans Rosling Passes Away At Age 68 53
You Can Make Any Number Out of Four 4s Because Math Is Amazing 309
'To Live Your Best Life, Do Mathematics' 229
New, Higher Measurement of Universe's Expansion May Lead To a 'New Physics' 139
Cervical Cancer Just Got Much Deadlier -- Because Scientists Fixed a Math Error 183
An AI Is Finally Trouncing The World's Best Poker Players 164
Knuth Previews New Math Section For 'The Art of Computer Programming' 176
Paintings Reveal Signs of Alzheimer's and Parkinson's In Famous Artists 24
Are Airlines Intentionally Overbooking Their Flights? 313

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