A week after OpenAI made headlines with an A.I.-generated proof, a new “declaration” by 16 experts raises concerns that the technology threatens math as a discipline. By Siobhan Roberts Recently there ...

A function is a relation such that for each \(x\)-value there is only one corresponding \(y\)-value. In other words, a function cannot contain two different ordered pairs with the same first ...

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David E. Dunning explores how mathematical notation is a social, world-building technology. It’s natural to think of math as being fundamentally abstract. Whether it’s invented or discovered, its ...

Five years ago, mathematicians Dawei Chen and Quentin Gendron were trying to untangle a difficult area of algebraic geometry involving differentials, elements of calculus used to measure distance ...

Computers are extremely good with numbers, but they haven’t gotten many human mathematicians fired. Until recently, they could barely hold their own in high school-level math competitions. But now ...

For the past several years, America has been using its young people as lab rats in a sweeping, if not exactly thought-out, education experiment. Schools across the country have been lowering standards ...

An ellipsis, \ldots, can be read as “and so on.” For example, 1, 2, 3, \ldots, 100 denotes the list of all numbers from 1 to 100, and 1 + 2 + 3 + \dots + 100 denotes the sum of all integers from 1 to ...

Depending on when and with whom you took CS 1640 Discrete Structures (formerly CS 064), or MATH 2055 Fundamentals of Mathematics (formerly MATH 052), you may notice some minor differences in notation ...

Reference notation, also known as reference initials, refers to a small but important section of the business letter template, as described by Colorado State University. The notation is placed at the ...

Galileo once famously described the universe as a great book “written in mathematical language and its characters are triangles, circles, and other geometrical figures.” Unfortunately, it’s a language ...