On a recent train trip from Lyon to Paris, Vladimir Voevodsky sat next to Steve Awodey and tried to convince him to change the way he does mathematics. Voevodsky, 48, is a permanent faculty member at ...
Pi just got bigger. Google’s Compute Engine has calculated the most digits of pi ever, setting a new world record. Emma Haruka Iwao, who works in high performance computing and programming language ...
Numbers rarely make headlines, but pi has a habit of doing exactly that. The famous constant, which is best known from school math as 3.14—never actually ends, and its digits never repeat their ...
“All humans are mathematical,” said Aly Martinez, instructional coordinator for math for the San Diego Unified School District. Martinez, speaking during the Dec. 9 online meeting of the La Jolla ...
How can you take a holistic look at computing, from the top down? Computer science is the answer. As the trend toward globalization connects people in every part of the world, digital networks and ...