In the late 19th century, Georg Cantor believed his new theory could help the Church understand the infinite nature of the ...

For centuries, mathematics was seen as the one discipline immune to contradiction — until one man proved it wasn’t. In the early 20th century, Kurt Gödel uncovered a flaw buried inside logic itself, ...

Believe it or not, highway numbers actually make sense. Here's the logic behind odd and even routes, and why the system isn't ...

In India’s cities, infrastructure is no longer just about engineering; it’s about ideology. What should have been a technical conversation on how to move millions of people efficiently has turned into ...

Recently, there has been a lot of hullabaloo about the idea that large reasoning models (LRM) are unable to think. This is mostly due to a research article published by Apple, "The Illusion of ...

Albert Einstein, one of the greatest scientific minds in history, revolutionised our understanding of the universe through his theories of relativity and quantum physics. Born in 1879 in Ulm, Germany, ...

A survey of reasoning behaviour in medical large language models uncovers emerging trends, highlights open challenges, and introduces theoretical frameworks that enhance reasoning behaviour ...

ABSTRACT: Fuzzy set theory, an extension of classical set theory, provides a mathematical framework for handling uncertainty and imprecision. This paper provides some key properties of fuzzy sets, ...

Answer: 888 + 88 + 8 + 8 + 8 = 1,000. This is the kind of math riddle you can work out with times tables, or by simple logic. First, get as close to 1,000 as you can (888). From there, it’s easy to ...

Maple is a powerful and comprehensive mathematics software environment developed by Maplesoft. It brings together symbolic computation, numeric analysis, programming, and visualization tools in one ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. At the turn of the 20th century, the renowned mathematician David Hilbert had a grand ambition to bring a more rigorous, mathematical ...