Some seemingly simple sequences of multiplication and addition grow so quickly that they question the very foundations of ...

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 ...

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On a cold evening in central London, I was one of the 3,000 people who gathered in Trafalgar Square to enjoy a delicious iftar and to pray as part of Ramadan, the holiest month of the year for Muslims ...

Recent research shows that market impact can determine long‑term returns and create lasting gaps between market price and fundamental value. Sato and Kanazawa find the square‑root law of market impact ...

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Buying large numbers of shares in a company would be expected to drive the price up for other investors, because such purchases imply a commodity in demand. Researchers have now gained their best ...

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At the 2024 International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO), one competitor did so well that it would have been awarded the Silver Prize, except for one thing: it was an AI system. This was the first time ...

Years ago, no math education was complete without understanding how to compute a square root. Today, you are probably just reaching for a calculator, or if you are writing a program, you’ll probably ...