There is a lot more to math than just equations on a chalkboard. It is a very useful set of tools for tackling problems in many different fields. Math tactics affect our environment in ways that most ...

A.I.’s math problem reflects how much the new technology is a break with computing’s past. By Steve Lohr In the school year that ended recently, one class of learners stood out as a seeming puzzle.

Cryptographers want encryption schemes that are impossible for tomorrow’s quantum computers to crack. There’s only one catch: they might not exist. When we check email, log in to our bank accounts, or ...

Terence Tao, a mathematics professor at UCLA, is a real-life superintelligence. The “Mozart of Math,” as he is sometimes called, is widely considered the world’s greatest living mathematician. He has ...

Sixty years ago, on May 1, 1964, at 4 am in the morning, a quiet revolution in computing began at Dartmouth College. That's when mathematicians John G. Kemeny and Thomas E. Kurtz successfully ran the ...

Entry-level programming roles are increasingly scarce, with junior applicants fielding fierce competition. Bryce Adelstein Lelbach, a principal architect at Nvidia, discussed the state of the job ...

Beware coders, accountants, and all those whose jobs are number-centric, the PayPal co-founder says in a podcast, adding that ‘word people’ will be harder to replace in the near future. “My intuition ...

Peter Thiel discussed artificial intelligence on Wednesday's episode of "Conversations with Tyler." The billionaire said the expansion of AI will be "worse for the math people than the word people." ...