mathematics

  • How Breaking the Rules of Maths Will Give Us an Edge Over AI

    How Breaking the Rules of Maths Will Give Us an Edge Over AI

    It is our human nature to tinker with rules, as anyone who has argued over dubious interpretations of the game Monopoly will attest. Rule-breaking may hold the key to giving us an edge over machines that, for all their emerging capabilities, are tied to fixed directives. A close look at how mathematics comes to be…


  • Google Celebrates Pi Day With a Cute Calculator Easter Egg

    Google Celebrates Pi Day With a Cute Calculator Easter Egg

    Happy Pi Day, fellow nerds! The yearly celebration of the mathematical constant π or pi, aka the ratio of a circle’s circumference to its diameter (and here I thought I’d never get a chance to use 9th-grade geometry in real life!). It falls on March 14 because pi written out numerically is 3.14… and then…