Just about all of us use computers or calculators every day without ever giving much thought to how they work. In his inimitable breezy style, Clive "Max" Maxfield, with co-author Alvin Brown, looks ...

Large language models still struggle with basic reasoning tasks. Two new papers that apply machine learning to math provide a blueprint for how that could change. The world has learned two things in ...

Have you ever wondered how a computer can "recognize" your face or how an app knows which song you want to hear next? It feels like magic, but it is actually built on Mathematics. Think of math as the ...

A.I.’s math problem reflects how much the new technology is a break with computing’s past. By Steve Lohr In the school year that ended recently, one class of learners stood out as a seeming puzzle.