There is no shortage of popular books and lectures on math—but they can only teach us so much. Mathematics has long been presented as a sanctuary from confusion and doubt, a place to go in search of ...

The artificial intelligence (AI) program DeepMind has gotten closer to proving a math conjecture that's bedeviled mathematicians for decades and revealed another new conjecture that may unravel how ...

This is an opinion editorial by Hongumart, a frontline healthcare worker. Bitcoin is often praised for its innovative design, its resistance to censorship and corruption and its potential to ...

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As year-end exams come to a close, the pressure mounts for high school pupils and their families to decide whether to continue with Pure Mathematics or switch to Maths Literacy. This choice signifies ...

In a recent interview, Steve Wozniak discussed the mathematical purity of Bitcoin as “pure-gold” mathematics, separating it from other cryptocurrencies. Steve Wozniak, co-founder of Apple, says ...

What is pure mathematics? What do pure mathematicians do? Why is pure mathematics important? These are questions I’m often confronted with when people discover I do pure mathematics. I always manage ...

Nearly twenty years after I graduated high school and my last calculus class, I still get that nightmare where I’m at the exam for a calculus course I somehow forgot to attend, or that I faked my way ...