Two decades ago, the mathematician Moon Duchin spent her summers teaching geometry at Mathcamp, a program for mathematically ...

As David Patterson observed in 1980, “A RISC potentially gains in speed merely from a simpler design.” Patterson’s principle of simplicity underpins a new alternative to speculation: A deterministic, ...

The long-debated idea that we might all be living in a computer simulation—popularized by science fiction films like The Matrix—has taken a major hit.

Up until now, the simulation hypothesis, which has occasionally received backing from the likes of Elon Musk and Neil ...

Rather than study how to use AI, students in this machine learning class work with the math that makes the AI work.

Analog computers are systems that perform computations by manipulating physical quantities such as electrical current, that ...

Computers built with analogue circuits promise huge speed and efficiency gains over ordinary computers, but normally at the ...

But the real puzzle isn’t whether de-skilling exists—it plainly does—but rather what kind of thing it is. Are all forms of de ...

The first term of my master’s degree in economics was an alarming experience. The econometrics was bewildering. The macroeconomics was even more mysterious. Everything was drenched in ...

These simple operations and others are why NumPy is a building block for statistical analysis with Python. NumPy also makes ...

Evolution is hard to model mathematically, but a new study may have found a way to do just that with some inspiration from an ...