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 ...

Welcome to this collection of repositories for the textbook "Hand-On Mathematical Optimization with Python", a project currently under development with completion expected by Fall 2024. The goals of ...

About 4,000 workers will lose their jobs as the payments company does more work with new artificial intelligence tools, its top executive said. By Natallie Rocha Reporting from San Francisco Block, ...

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 ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Hard problems are usually not a welcome sight. But cryptographers love them. That’s because certain hard math problems underpin the ...

Whether you’re solving geometry problems, handling scientific computations, or processing data arrays, calculating square roots in Python is a fundamental task. Python offers multiple approaches for ...

Draw four lines beginning and ending at the gray points to break this square into pieces that can be rearranged into five identical squares. Show puzzle solution Bonus: Suppose you can use any number ...

Linux provides quite a few commands that let you do math on the command line. Which is best depends on the kind of math that you’re doing and the precision that you’re expecting. This post covers five ...

Today is Cinco de Mayo. And this year, the fifth of May is filled with mathematical joy. It is — Square Root Day! It all started in 1981. "I was writing a check in late August," says Ron Gordon, who ...