The rapidly-improving speed and versatility of digital computers has mostly driven analogue computers out of use in modern ...

A reader named Sam told me he has a problem. His Windows computers aren't playing nice with each other. Unlike his iPad and iPhone, they're never in sync.

Commercial software can’t keep pace with experimental precision when it comes to large-scale computer-algebra calculations in ...

Tao: Today there are a lot of very tedious types of mathematics that we don’t like doing, so we look for clever ways to get ...

Researchers in China published a paper describing a theoretical model for photonic computing that used light particles instead of electrons for faster processing. The team developed “parallel optical ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. All of modern mathematics is built on the foundation of set theory, the study of how to organize abstract collections of objects. But in ...

The SNEG library is a package for Mathematica computer algebra system. It provides a framework for performing calculations using the operators of the second quantisation with an emphasis on the ...

Descriptive set theorists study the niche mathematics of infinity. Now, they’ve shown that their problems can be rewritten in the concrete language of algorithms. All of modern mathematics is built on ...

The New York State Education Department is pushing new math guidelines, including a recommendation that teachers stop giving timed quizzes — because it stresses students out. The new guidelines also ...

Correction: After publishing, Red Hat confirmed that it was a breach of one of its GitLab instances, and not GitHub. Title and story updated. An extortion group calling itself the Crimson Collective ...

From fears about academic dishonesty to declining foundational skills and increased screen time, there’s no shortage of concern about how students use artificial intelligence (AI). While I share many ...

Dr. Weatherby is the director of the Digital Theory Lab at New York University. ChatGPT was released two and a half years ago, and we have been in a public panic ever since. Artificial intelligence ...