Indian mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan’s formula for Pi can help with calculating black holes, studying percolation, or ...

Isaac Newton did not just invent calculus and rewrite physics, he also tried to calculate the end of the world with the same ...

For more than a century, Srinivasa Ramanujan’s uncanny formulas for the number pi have looked like pure mathematical ...

Most games that pit two players or teams against each other require one of them to make the first play. This results in a built-in asymmetry, and the question arises: Should you go first or second?

I think of an AI as a script kiddie. A very good script kiddie, but never the less a basic script kiddie, If it hasnt seen the script for the answer, then it can't give the answer. In other words, an ...

Steven Strogatz — the acclaimed mathematician and author — hosts the new Quanta Magazine podcast “The Joy of Why.” On March 18, 2022, he joined Quanta editor Thomas Lin for a Simons Foundation ...