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The mathematician Tai-Danae Bradley is using category theory to try to understand both human and AI-generated language.

A seemingly simple math problem about dividing pizzas sparked debate when someone highlighted a potential flaw in the assumed answer.

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Monash University researchers have extended Descartes’ Circle Theorem by finding a general equation for any number of tangent ...

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Meet “Mathemalchemy,” a traveling math-meets-art installation coming eventually to a dimension near you. By Siobhan Roberts Ingrid Daubechies, a mathematician at Duke University, is an expert ...