Daniel Glasscock, an assistant professor of mathematics and statistics in the Kennedy College of Sciences, has been interested by Ramsey theory since his master’s degree studies at Central European ...

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 ...

Below, Tom Griffiths shares five key insights from his new book, The Laws of Thought: The Quest for a Mathematical Theory of the Mind. Griffiths is a professor of psychology and computer science at ...

Researchers at Stanford and Caltech have found some critical reasoning failures in advanced AI models. LLMs are great at recognizing patterns, but they have trouble with basic logic, social reasoning, ...

Take the pressure off of problem solving with engaging thinking games that encourage students to work together to find solutions. Like many teachers, I used to think of problem-solving as something I ...

You’ve locked in on your weight loss goals, consistently cut back on calories, and made time for daily workouts. Yet after initially losing a couple of pounds, you just can’t get that number on the ...

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 ...

Descriptive set theorists study the niche mathematics of infinity. Now, they’ve shown that their problems can be rewritten in the concrete language of algorithms. All of modern mathematics is built on ...

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 ...