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There is no shortage of popular books and lectures on math—but they can only teach us so much.

There's now an open letter arguing that the world should impose a six-month moratorium on the further scaling of AI models such as GPT, by government fiat if necessary, to give AI safety and interpretability research a bit more time to catch up. The letter is signed by many of my friends and colleagues, many…

Discover how gluons bind quarks together to form protons and neutrons and explore the form weird form of matter in which they existed just after the Big Bang.

Cambridge Core - Logic, Categories and Sets - The Joy of Abstraction

New findings are fueling an old suspicion that fundamental particles and forces spring from strange eight-part numbers called "octonions." In 2014, a graduate student at the University of Waterloo, Canada, named Cohl Furey rented a car and drove...

A century after she published a groundbreaking mathematical theory, Emmy Noether gets her due.

We asked several mathematicians to tell us their favorite non-pi numbers. Here are some of their answers.

Popular Anthem-area brunch spot The Stove is getting remade.

Grichka and Igor Bogdanoff, twins in an uneasy spotlight, die at 72

In France they were science-loving TV celebrities (molded by plastic surgery) whose own research was suspect, maybe a hoax. They died within days of each other.