IntroductionSay you’re at a party with nine other people and everyone shakes everyone else’s hand exactly once. How many handshakes take place?
This is the...
What is encryption?
Encryption is the method by which information is converted into secret code that hides the information's true meaning. The science of encrypting...
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Trigger warning: math.
One of the key cryptographic primitives behind various...
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There has been a lot of interest lately in the...
IntroductionWe tend to think of mathematics as purely logical, but the teaching of math, its values, its usefulness and its workings are packed with...
IntroductionIn the mid-1980s, like Walkman cassette players and tie-dyed shirts, the buglike silhouette of the Mandelbrot set was everywhere.
Students plastered it to dorm room...
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When Salvador Quijada, a seventh and eighth grade math teacher at...
IntroductionLenore Blum’s long career has spanned the breadth of mathematics and computer science. She’s done influential work in logic and cryptography, and she formulated...
IntroductionMathematical truths are often born of the conflict between order and disorder. Mathematicians discover patterns, and, to better understand the mysterious forces at play,...
AI models can manage well enough when prompted with text or images, and may even solve complex problems when not making terrible errors.
OpenAI, for...