In a media landscape overrun with slick data visualizations, students must develop the skills to scrutinize what’s presented ...
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In early August, top mathematicians gathered at the offices of ChatGPT maker OpenAI in San Francisco for a summit on an existential question: What will be left for human math experts to do if ...
A well known University of California-Berkeley mathematics professor has slammed admissions standards at the top-flight university — where she says huge portions of her students are failing to keep up ...
On a recent Sunday night, an employee at Anthropic was out for a jog in San Francisco, opened the Claude app on his phone and instructed the outrageously powerful AI model in his pocket to solve the ...
Not every business becomes a full-time endeavor right out of the gate. In fact, many founders hang onto their 9-to-5 after they’ve found a small business idea they want to pursue. (That’s a strategy ...
The consumer price index rose 3.5% in June 2026 from a year earlier, the Bureau of Labor Statistics said Tuesday. It was a slowdown from May, the first pullback in the annual inflation rate since ...
Zvezdelina Stankova has taught mathematics at UC Berkeley for nearly three decades. But in 2023, while teaching introductory calculus for the first time since the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic ...
A week after OpenAI made headlines with an A.I.-generated proof, a new “declaration” by 16 experts raises concerns that the technology threatens math as a discipline. By Siobhan Roberts Recently there ...
“If you are a mathematician,” one of the world’s leading mathematicians recently wrote, “you may want to make sure you are sitting down before reading further.” And you’ll definitely need to sit down ...
In October 2024 I attended a workshop at Harvard University where mathematicians talked through the uses of artificial intelligence in their field. Most were less worried about the future of math than ...