A computer language designed to robustly verify mathematical theorems and expose logical flaws has been turned towards a physics paper – and spotted an error. The discovery raises questions about how ...
Futurama is one of the best science fiction TV shows of all time and unsurprisingly relies heavily on math. First, no matter how many times it gets canceled, it seems to adjust the numbers and pop ...
The quest to make mathematics rigorous has a long and spotty history — one mathematicians can learn from as they push to ...
The central limit theorem started as a bar trick for 18th-century gamblers. Now scientists rely on it every day.
A writer for Futurama created a brand new math theorem based on group theory to explain a plot twist in the show. That is like, going way beyond the call of duty, dude. Ken Keeler, the Futurama writer ...
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The math trauma
Have you ever wondered what makes math so frightening for students in Pakistan that it leads to panic attacks? Have you ever compared the scared, silent classroom during math to the lively one during ...
Herbert Simon, the Nobel-prize winning economist, was a techno-enthusiast. In 1956 he predicted that, “within 10 years, computers would beat the world chess champion, compose ‘aesthetically satisfying ...
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