Einstein’s equations look simple on paper but when physicists follow them to their logical end, the universe becomes far stranger than anyone expected. Black holes, warped space, time dilation, and ...
Dilation, at its core, is a transformation that changes the size of a figure without altering its shape. This concept, fundamental to geometry and particularly emphasized in Common Core Geometry ...
I didn’t find math particularly exciting when I was in high school. To be honest, I only studied it when I went to university because it initially seemed quite easy to me. But in my very first math ...
The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. In the fall of 2022, a Princeton University graduate student named Carolina Figueiredo stumbled onto a massive coincidence. She ...
ChatGPT has already wreaked havoc on classrooms and changed how teachers approach writing homework, since OpenAI publicly launched the generative AI chatbot in late 2022. School administrators rushed ...
Experts disagree on who needs it and when. Here’s what the evidence suggests. By Michelle Crouch Perhaps the most unpleasant part of an eye exam is when the doctor squeezes in the dreaded drops to ...
On Thursday, Google DeepMind announced that AI systems called AlphaProof and AlphaGeometry 2 reportedly solved four out of six problems from this year’s International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO), ...
Mathematicians have proved a key building block of the Langlands programme, sometimes referred to as a “grand unified theory” of maths due to the deep links it proposes between seemingly distant ...
I was never one for geometry classes at school, I was always more into literature and creative subjects, which might explain why I'm currently writing about the biggest spring/summer fashion trends ...