In a February article, I likened IUT theory (Inter-universal Teichmüller theory) to a distributed system. I thought it was a controversy where the mathematical framework itself could change. The ...

IntroductionWhen you ask generative AI to do something, it usually returns a plausible answer.Summarizing documents, ...

\textit{Absolute Value and Absolute-Value Inequalities: From Fundamentals to Quadratics} is a clear, structured, and student-friendly mathematics resource designed for learners in Grades 10–12, ages ...

Disparities in income and wealth are growing. A scientific assessment process can give governments the information they need to tackle them. Imraan Valodia is a professor of economics and director of ...

Anthropic published the first complete computer-checked formalization of Fermat's Last Theorem on September 4, 2026 — a task the mathematical community had expected to take years of coordinated human ...

AI company Anthropic has created a formalised proof of Fermat’s last theorem. It took just 11 days for a group of AI agents to complete the task, confirming that the human-found proof proposed in the ...

Social Security's looming funding crisis is usually blamed on demographics, with an aging U.S. population and declining birth rates leaving fewer workers to support retirees. But another force is also ...

“We can either have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few. But we can’t have both,” Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis once warned. His concerns ...

👉 Learn how to solve absolute value inequalities. The absolute value of a number is the positive value of the number. For instance, the absolute value of 2 is 2 and the absolute value of -2 is also 2 ...

South Africa exhibits one of the highest levels of income inequality globally, reflecting persistent spatial exclusion. This paper examines the extent and causes of spatial inequality using household ...

When economists track inequality, they typically focus on income and spending. But a significant share of the services that families actually consume—meals cooked at home, child care, housecleaning ...