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A data-minimizing way to research health data is Secure Multiparty Computation. On the successful implementation of the ...

When I was in middle school, I had a classmate who would look at trigonometric functions and yell, "I will never need these!" ...

New research finds girls and women more often use step-by-step algorithms, while boys and men use shortcuts. Accuracy is ...

Mathematics is often seen as perfect—consistent, complete, and immune to contradiction. But in the early 20th century, a breakthrough proved that no mathematical system can ever explain everything ...

In August, a team of mathematicians posted a paper claiming to solve a major problem in algebraic geometry — using entirely alien techniques. It instantly captivated the field, stoking excitement in ...

Math students may not blink at calculating probabilities, measuring the area beneath curves or evaluating matrices, yet they often find themselves at sea when first confronted with writing proofs. But ...

Harmonic raises third funding in 14 months from insiders Focus on AI's math and reasoning capabilities Plans to explore commercial use cases in software development Nov 25 (Reuters) - Harmonic, an ...

Computers are extremely good with numbers, but they haven’t gotten many human mathematicians fired. Until recently, they could barely hold their own in high school-level math competitions. But now ...

Talia Ringer is in the Siebel School of Computing and Data Science, University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, 61801, USA. Read the paper: Olympiad-level formal mathematical ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. In 1974, five years before he wrote his Pulitzer Prize–winning book Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid, Douglas Hofstadter was ...