After its Back to Basics reading overhaul, New York is turning to math — but educators and researchers can't agree on ...

Katherine Johnson, the NASA mathematician whose calculations helped send astronauts into orbit and to the Moon, played a ...

One of the most hilarious things you can do with an LLM-based chatbot is to ask it to do calculations. If it’s a well-written ...

In October 2024 I attended a workshop at Harvard University where mathematicians talked through the uses of artificial intelligence in their field. Most were less worried about the future of math than ...

You can use these live scripts as demonstrations in lectures, class activities, or interactive assignments outside class. In the first script, students learn to derive transfer functions from ODEs and ...

This article is from Proof Positive, our friendly newsletter that explores the joys and peculiarities of math. Sign up today for a weekly math essay and puzzle in your email inbox. Countless debates ...

For decades, mathematicians have struggled to understand matrices that reflect both order and randomness, like those that model semiconductors. A new method could change that. The mystery was this: In ...

Physics and Python stuff. Most of the videos here are either adapted from class lectures or solving physics problems. I really like to use numerical calculations without all the fancy programming ...

Modern technology offers new possibilities for transforming teaching. By Anant Agarwal Anant Agarwal is an education innovator. This personal reflection is part of a series called Turning Points, in ...

With iOS 18, the Notes app is set to gain several new features. There aren't many updates to the overall design, but Notes has deeper integrations with other apps that add all kinds of new ...

This paper estimates the social returns to investments in innovation. The disparate spillovers associated with innovation, including imitation, business stealing, and intertemporal spillovers, have ...

In an effort to replicate an experiment conducted over a century ago, researchers present evidence confirming at least one single-cell organism -- the trumpet-shaped Stentor roeselii -- exhibits a ...