What they are: A logarithm is the exponent you raise a base to in order to get a number, acting as the inverse of exponentiation. Why they matter: They simplify multiplication, division, and roots ...

A link between particle physics and gravity equations, called the double copy, applies to Hawking radiation, creating a new ...

Terence Tao has been exploring the intersection between maths and AI. Credit: David Esquivel/UCLA. Is mathematics being taken ...

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 ...

Explore advanced mathematical techniques with Mathematical Methods Spherical Coordinates Integrals and Computational Python. This video dives into spherical coordinate systems, integral calculus in ...

The race is on to develop an artificial intelligence that can do pure mathematics, and top mathematicians just threw down the gauntlet with an exam of actual, unsolved problems that are relevant to ...

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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 ...

Computers are extremely good with numbers, but they haven’t gotten many human mathematicians fired. Until recently, they could barely hold their own in high school-level math competitions. But now ...

Some environmental groups are warning that a federal bill intended to prevent major wildfires could effectively increase logging and cattle grazing on federal lands — which make up half of Oregon’s ...