We teach the wrong math and test it the wrong way. We devote thousands of hours to the obsolete rote math that pervades our high-stakes exams—math ...

Then it’s kind of a mystery to try to figure out why and how they’re related.” The Riemann hypothesis has proved to be a font ...

Gothenburg promised to optimise school admissions with a piece of code. The resulting chaos showed how unaccountable systems are ruining lives We like to imagine that injustice announces itself loudly ...

More than 1,200 years ago, in the intellectual heart of Abbasid Baghdad, a Persian scholar quietly reshaped how humans understand numbers, problems and logic. His name was Muhammad ibn Musa ...

In a 6-3 ruling Wednesday, the U.S. Supreme Court’s conservative majority struck down one of Louisiana’s majority-Black congressional districts. The decision weakens key protections under the Voting ...

For generations, college golf did not have to win a profit-and-loss argument to justify its place in an athletic department. That was never really the point. Golf existed at Wichita State, as it has ...

Optimization algorithms constitute a foundational pillar of computational science, encompassing a spectrum of methods designed to locate minima or maxima of objective functions under a variety of ...

How machine intelligence changes the rules of business by Marco Iansiti and Karim R. Lakhani In 2019, just five years after the Ant Financial Services Group was launched, the number of consumers using ...

The possibility of losing redistricting gains in Virginia may mean a much tighter Democratic majority in next year’s Congress, if they can claim it at all.