Quanta Magazine

After 80 Years, Mathematicians Give Famed ‘Erdős Method’ an Upgrade

Decades ago, Paul Erdős used randomness to illuminate the vast and weird world of networks. Now mathematicians are making his ...

This Beloved Affordable Watchmaker Is Bringing Back a Sold-Out Favorite

The new Scalegraph is exactly the type of watch that has propelled Baltic to cult-favorite status. You get a vintage-inspired ...
Communications of the ACM

Beyond the Pipeline: A Gender Lens on Priorities and Exit Triggers in the High-Tech Industry

Among early- and mid-career computer science graduates, men are more likely than women to report no intentions to leave their ...
Chalkbeat

Blending algebra and geometry: An approach to high school math slowly gains favor

This story about integrated math was produced by The Hechinger Report, a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education. Sign up for the Hechinger ...

A.I.’s First Big Math Breakthrough Is Not What It Seems

Last month, OpenAI announced that its latest version of ChatGPT had solved a major math problem, one that had stumped experts ...

Using a different approach, Halton District School Board succeeds in raising math scores

The Halton board’s focus on math goes all the way down to the physical layout of classrooms, and a teaching philosophy that ...
IEEE

Spectral Graph Theory: The mathematics of self-supervised learning [Special Issue on the Mathematics of Deep Learning]

Abstract: Possessing a manipulable representation of the world is a requirement for intelligent machines to plan, reason, and act in the world. Endowing computational systems, e.g., deep networks (DNs ...
Ars Technica

An OpenAI model solved a famous math problem that stumped humans for 80 years

In mid-May, OpenAI announced that an internal AI model had disproved the Erdős unit distance conjecture, a famous problem in discrete geometry that had stumped human mathematicians for the last 80 ...
cmu.edu

CMU Math Student Charts a New Path with Rubik’s Cubes

Rubik's cubes are great for fun, fast-paced problem solving, but they also have a rich mathematical structure involving ideas of symmetry and connectivity. A 3x3x3 Rubik’s cube has 43 quintillion ...
GitHub

Kokkos C++ Performance Portability Programming EcoSystem: Math Kernels - Provides BLAS, Sparse BLAS and Graph Kernels

KokkosKernels implements local computational kernels for linear algebra and graph operations, using the Kokkos shared-memory parallel programming model. "Local" means not using MPI, or running within ...
Chalkbeat

Learning to teach Illustrative Math is hard, but it’s worth it

As a high schooler growing up in Yonkers, I was the kid my math teachers could ask to help the students who struggled in class. I was fortunate that math came pretty easily to me, and I could explain ...
techlearning

What is GeoGebra and How Can Teachers Use It To Teach Math?

The principles of mathematics underlie all physical properties of our world. Math is the language of the universe, and as such, everything in both nature and modern life depends on it. But math is a ...