LLMs and string theory suggest that language and reality both emerge from projections across hidden dimensions.

Math, citizen science and the scientific method are all tools researchers use to investigate evidence of unidentified phenomena and reveal they may just have a down-to-earth explanation.

Mehtaab Sawhney, who joined Columbia last year, enjoys the thorny work of proving a seemingly straightforward statement of ...

There's no question that Albert Einstein was one of the greatest minds of his or any generation, but there was one problem he ...

A new study from the University of Kansas explores the role of working memory in word problem-solving for students with and ...

From timetable scheduling to colouring in, and even casting a play, this nifty piece of mathematics is the answer, says Katie ...

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Different branches of math might use different words for things — like “group” instead of “vector space” — but when you swap ... these different contexts when trying to solve a problem. One of my ...

You can get in touch with Jack by emailing [email protected] A dad in Virginia ended up turning to social media for help after becoming confused by a first-grade math problem. Math seems to ...

Two mathematicians now say they’ve made progress on a very old unsolved math problem. The problem involves a subfield called geometric measure theory, in which sets of objects are generalized in ...