When Lisa Piccirillo solved a decades-old mystery about the “Conway knot,” she had to overcome the knot’s uncanny ability to hoodwink some of the most powerful tools mathematicians have devised. Known ...

SPONSORED – Mathnasium is offering a unique approach to learning math as students head back to school this fall. The math learning center provides a different approach to learning math compared to ...

Researchers demonstrate that our brain need only perform a few lightning-fast statistical calculations to detect key properties of unknown objects. From a child snapping Legos together to a pickpocket ...

Sam Baron receives funding from the Australian Research Council. Many people think that mathematics is a human invention. To this way of thinking, mathematics is like a language: it may describe real ...

HILLSBORO, OR —Traditional approaches for extracting computational power from silicon are insufficient for meeting the requirements of machine-vision, professional-video, medical-imaging, ...