Anthropic's Claude AI completed the first machine-checked formalization of Fermat's Last Theorem in Lean 4, verifying over 29 ...

Mathematical formulas are used not only for calculating values, but also for describing system states, relationships, and changes. By expressing dynamics as a mathematical model, you can share "what ...

24 July 2026: New binary release, entitled Informath-0.4. 22 July 2026: also verbal constants can now be defined with # variables, which enables permutations, as well as drops without the #DROP ...

Executive function describes a set of cognitive processes and mental skills that help an individual plan, monitor, and successfully execute their goals. The “executive functions,” as they’re known, ...

Mathematician Kevin Buzzard of Imperial College London is training computers how to prove one of the most famous problems in math history: Fermat’s last theorem. Resolving the problem isn’t the point.

David E. Dunning explores how mathematical notation is a social, world-building technology. It’s natural to think of math as being fundamentally abstract. Whether it’s invented or discovered, its ...

Journal Editorial Report: The Fed Chief signals rate cuts are coming. As we saw during the Covid pandemic, lab-created experiments can wreak havoc when they escape their confines. Once released, they ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. At the turn of the 20th century, the renowned mathematician David Hilbert had a grand ambition to bring a more rigorous, mathematical ...

A target function, in machine learning, is a mathematical representation of the ideal mapping between supervised learning inputs and outputs. Target functions are often written as f(x), where x ...