It's Mathematics Awareness Month, and this year's theme is Unraveling Complex Systems. Host Scott Simon talks to Weekend Edition Math Guy Keith Devlin about how math can be a guide to understanding ...

Cognitive overload can create a bottleneck during math lessons, but there are simple strategies to clear up students’ brain space for complex problem-solving.

Your brain calculates complex physics every day and you don't even notice. This neuromorphic chip taps into the same idea.

You can probably think of a time when you’ve used math to solve an everyday problem, such as calculating a tip at a restaurant or determining the square footage of a room. But what role does math play ...

The [Math Sorcerer] loves books. His latest acquisition is the famous Real and Complex Analysis, which is a very stout math book. How stout? Well, there are several chapters on holomorphic functions, ...

OpenAI o1 is a new large language model trained with reinforcement learning to perform complex reasoning. o1 thinks before it answers—it can produce a long internal chain of thought before responding ...

Buffalo State College’s new $110 million Science and Mathematics Complex is taking shape. The new building designed by Cannon— a 224,000 sq.ft. facility over three levels– will be home to the ...

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Juggling is math. Follow me on this one. The connection between the two came out of juggler's attempts to develop a kind of notation for their tricks. That notation, called siteswap, can be used to ...