When I was in middle school, I had a classmate who would look at trigonometric functions and yell, "I will never need these!" ...

Square Root Day — an event that occurs only nine times in a century — was celebrated with a variety of math activities this week at the St. Augustine Elementary School gym. Square Root Day is an ...

People usually talk about the race to the bottom in artificial intelligence as a bad thing. But it’s different when you’re discussing loss functions. Loss functions are a crucial but frequently ...

The ancient Greeks wanted to believe that the universe could be described in its entirety using only whole numbers and the ratios between them — fractions, or what we now call rational numbers. But ...

For all of the recent strides we’ve made in the math world—like a supercomputer finally solving the Sum of Three Cubes problem that puzzled mathematicians for 65 years—we’re forever crunching ...

Calculators have become an essential tool in various fields, from schools to businesses. One common use for calculators is finding the square root of a number. The square root is the value that, when ...

Math Teaching and Research Office in Chengdu College of Arts and Sciences, Chengdu, China. 2) The set of integers form a ring by ordinary addition and ordinary multiplication, and the ring of rational ...

A new DNA computer calculates square roots of perfect squares up to 900. Like quantum computers, DNA computers are an exciting frontier of post-silicon computing. Where previous examples were up to 4 ...