Researchers at Georgia Tech are using math, science, and artificial intelligence to better understand how people think, move, ...

The words children use play a critical role in their early success with math. Learn how to bring "math words" into your child ...

But sometimes I have to cut a sandwich or pizza in half. If the other person is equally hungry, they'll be scrupulous about ...

This Women’s History Month, we look at how women’s innovations have advanced the field of computer programming.

Kendra Pierre-Louis: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Kendra Pierre-Louis, in for Rachel Feltman. In 1997, Deep Blue, a supercomputer built by IBM, did the unexpected: it defeated chess ...

Axiom Math is giving away a powerful new AI tool. But it remains to be seen if it speeds up research as much as the company hopes. Axiom Math, a startup based in Palo Alto, California, has released a ...

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 ...

Here’s a contrarian truth that cuts through much of today’s AI hype: When your AI assistant calculates revenue, bonuses, VAT or financial summaries, it isn’t doing math. It’s telling a convincing ...

Ever wanted to know how engineers made their calculations before digital calculators were on every workbench? [Richard Carpenter] and [Robert Wolf] have just the thing—a sliderule simulator that can ...

A new mathematical shortcut has cut the core calculations inside earthquake ground-shaking simulations by about 1,000 times without sacrificing accuracy. That leap in speed could make it far easier ...