The proof, known to be so hard that a mathematician once offered 10 martinis to whoever could figure it out, uses number ...

Through a Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship, Jenny Quan is exploring the mathematical principles behind Rubik's cubes.

Brain scans show that most of us have a built-in capacity to learn to code, rooted in the brain’s logic and reasoning ...

Parts of the brain are "rewired" when people learn computer programming, according to new research. Scientists watched ...

In a remarkable development, a human mathematician has achieved what many thought impossible: solving the centuries-old ...

UC Santa Barbara computer scientist Daniel Lokshtanov is advancing fundamental understanding of computational efficiency through groundbreaking research on quasi-polynomial time algorithms, supported ...

So, Google’s quantum computer is making waves again. You might have heard some buzz about it solving problems that would take ...

Daniel Lokshtanov’s work explores the limits of what computers can solve, paving the way for advances in artificial intelligence and computational efficiency.

Following a spate of deadly wildfires earlier this year, many of us find ourselves asking how we can fight such a powerful ...

The New York State Education Department is pushing new math guidelines, including a recommendation that teachers stop giving timed quizzes — because it stresses students out. The new guidelines also ...

Simple math equations grow harder when we're out of practice. As time goes on we forget the elementary rules of math and compound problems become more and more challenging. That's why a simple math ...

Tao had a theoretical analysis but needed concrete numbers to check certain inequalities. At first, he asked the AI to write Python code, but ran into issues with runtime and parameter selection. By ...