In 1960, a 23-year-old Soviet mathematician named Anatoly Karatsuba stunned the world of mathematics with a revolutionary discovery: a faster way to multiply large numbers. Known today as Karatsuba’s ...

The act of knowing algorithms plays an important role in procedural fluency—recognizing a problem, flexibly choosing a strategy to solve it, and executing it—but it is often confused with ...

At issue was an algorithm called Q* (pronounced “Q-star”), which has allegedly been shown to solve certain grade-school-level math problems that it hasn’t seen before.

MathWorks just unveiled three automatic source code-generation products designed to take days and even weeks off of engineering projects. MATLAB Coder, allowing design engineers to generate readable, ...

It's going the distance DeepMind breaks 50-year math record using AI; new record falls a week later AlphaTensor discovers better algorithms for matrix math, inspiring another improvement from afar.

This article, the first in our new Algorithm Series, dives into the math behind the magic of streaming media delivery to highlight significant mathematical concepts—and even a few equations—that power ...