A controversial new movement promoting the "science of math" has come into the math establishment's crosshairs.

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In a paper published January 21 in Nature, a team led by scientists at the University of Wisconsin–Madison have run complex numerical simulations of plasma flows that, while leading to turbulence, ...

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Find out how and why mathematics is used in microeconomics, its limitations, and the math skills that economics students need.

Every December 22, India celebrates National Mathematics Day as a comfortable tribute to Srinivasa Ramanujan: A genius remembered, a nation proud, a few school competitions, a poster or two. But ...

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Wednesday’s -53°C reading in the Yukon was the earliest in the year Canada has seen a temperature that cold in 30 years Expect temperatures to plummet as a reserve of exceptionally cold Arctic air ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. The best perk of Alberto Maspero’s job, he says, is the view from his window. Situated on a hill above the ancient port city of Trieste, ...

Dario Amodei, the C.E.O. of the artificial-intelligence company Anthropic, has been predicting that an A.I. “smarter than a Nobel Prize winner” in such fields as biology, math, engineering, and ...