1+ day, 15+ hour ago   (408+ words) Test scores are not the full measure of a child. But they are a good predictor of desirable outcomes and a bulwark against many of the worst ones. Schools in RICH countries are failing The latest scores on PISA tests…...

3+ day, 3+ hour ago   (785+ words) On Tuesday, two breakthroughs were announced within hours of each other: First, from an American mathematician who published under protest, apologising for the state of his papers, which, he said, outside pressure had forced him to release early. The second…...

3+ day, 23+ hour ago   (1058+ words) Water seeping through sand, air rising over warm plains and the swirl in a stirred cup are all described by the same family of equations. And for ninety years, mathematicians have been unable to say whether those equations always sustain....

4+ day, 4+ hour ago   (635+ words) OpenAI said Tuesday that one of its unreleased artificial intelligence models had solved a mathematical puzzle that has eluded mathematicians for generations, in a claim which also drew a fight with rival researchers over credit. Researchers at OpenAI said it…...

3+ week, 6+ day ago   (969+ words) In a work generally dated to around 825 CE, the Baghdad-based scholar Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi explained calculation using Hindu numerals, including zero. Medieval Latin versions of his name helped give us “algorithm”; the title of another work, al-jabr, gave us…...