At the 2024 International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO), one competitor did so well that it would have been awarded the Silver ...
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Ancient Clay Tablet Reveals That The Babylonians Knew The Pythagorean Theorem Over 1,000 Years Before Pythagoras Lived
The earliest known evidence for the Pythagorean Theorem comes from an ancient clay tablet called, “IM 67118.” This tablet uses the theorem to determine the length of a diagonal within a rectangle, and ...
Professor Raúl Rojas has published a book about how symbols have been used throughout history in mathematics. The work was ...
Stage 5: Justify thinking. A vital habit that many students need to solidify is recontextualizing after they solve ...
In 2024, an AI entered the fray of the International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO). Google’s AlphaProof is part of the same ...
Mathematicians have broken through a long-standing barrier in the study of “minimizing surfaces,” which play an important ...
For years, a French mathematician searched for a proof that a gigantic number is prime. His method is still used 150 years ...
The 1945 “whole-person” formula used by the Department of Veterans Affairs presumes independence among various disabilities. But empirical data show that this assumption is faulty, and veterans ...
Marijn Heule turns mathematical statements into something like Sudoku puzzles, then has computers go to work on them. His ...
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