The government justifies its deportation blitz aimed at immigrants by pointing hysterically at immigrant crime, which is far less than that of U.S.-born citizens.

For over two millennia, mathematicians agreed on one thing: you can’t use trigonometry to prove Pythagoras’ Theorem—because ...

If you’re a hacker you may well have a passing interest in math, and if you have an interest in math you might like to hear ...

First came digital money. Then came programmable money. Now, the next frontier of blockchain is here — the Proof Economy. In this new era, every transaction, asset, and data point comes with ...

A simple question about a spinning needle has haunted mathematicians for more than a century. It led to the Kakeya conjecture ...

Montgomery happened to find strikingly similar behavior in the prime numbers— specifically, the correlations between the ...

This is an updated version of a story first published on May 5, 2024. For many high school students returning to class, it ...

A few months before the 2025 International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO) in July, a three-person team at OpenAI made a long bet that they could use the competition’s brutally tough problems to train an ...

A technology once confined to academic papers is now being called out in US government reports and powering the settlement systems of global banks. Zero-knowledge proofs (ZK-proofs) are cryptographic ...

OpenAI has achieved a new milestone in the race to build AI models that can reason their way through complex math problems. On Saturday, the company announced that one of its models achieved gold ...

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