When Eric Weber, professor and chair of mathematics at Iowa State University, talks about data science with future math teachers, he doesn't begin with code, algorithms, or buzzwords. Instead, he asks ...

In mid-May, OpenAI announced that an internal AI model had disproved the Erdős unit distance conjecture, a famous problem in discrete geometry that had stumped human mathematicians for the last 80 ...

Alexander Willis is a senior editor who graduated from the Mayborn School of Journalism at the University of North Texas and currently lives in the Metro Nashville area, Tennessee. Prior to joining ...

The remarkable effectiveness of mathematics to reveal and quantify patterns in every human discipline makes a degree in Mathematics enormously valuable and versatile. The Department of Mathematics at ...

Artificial intelligence (AI) is reshaping work—especially in technical and knowledge-intensive fields—by automating routine tasks and increasing the value of quantitative reasoning and systems ...

For most of the last fifteen years, the active-versus-passive question had a simple answer: pay less, accept the index, win on average. The data backed it up. Year after year, the SPIVA U.S. Scorecard ...

Plans to build a mosque in Fujisawa, a city southwest of Tokyo, have become the latest flashpoint for Muslim communities in Japan, as a growing need for places of worship meets resistance from some ...

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I have spent the better part of a decade helping thousands of first-time founders raise their first round of outside capital, and evaluating thousands more for investment. In all of these data points, ...

At first glance, the world looks random. A sunflower growing in a field. A spiral in a shell. The shape of a storm… or even a galaxy. But when you look closer, patterns start to appear. The same ...