An 'impossible' riddle that has become famous for being hard to solve is going viral after it was claimed only 10% of people ...

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Somewhere at the edge of mathematics lurks a number so large that it breaks the very foundations of our understanding - and ...

When I was in middle school, I had a classmate who would look at trigonometric functions and yell, "I will never need these!" ...

Mathematics is a "science which requires a great amount of imagination", said the 19th-century Russian maths professor Sofya ...

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South Korean scientist YoungHoon Kim, known for having the world’s highest reported IQ, claims the existence of God can be ...

After 32 years of waiting, mathematicians calculate Dedekind's ninth number, a 42-digit giant that defied logic.

Large language models (LLMs), artificial intelligence (AI) systems that can process and generate texts in various languages, ...

You’d be surprised how many young people can’t read this. One of its conclusions tells the sad tale. “Between 2020 and 2025, the number of students whose math skills fall below high school level has ...

Hallucination is fundamental to how transformer-based language models work. In fact, it’s their greatest asset: this is the method by which language models find links between sometimes disparate ...

Logic is the skeleton of reasoning. For centuries, classical logic has been applied to describe all the observed physical phenomena. In classical logic, statements are either true or false and the ...