Clara Grima, mathematician: “We are going to do what machines cannot”

In a world dominated by algorithms, it's common to associate them with a negative bias. Mathematician Clara Grima defends ...
Gallaudet University

Math professor’s excellence recognized with Gallaudet’s first endowed professorship

Dr. Mohammad Obiedat has been chosen for the first Alan M. Fisch Professorship in Mathematics, which was established this ...
Education Week

Is It Bad to Memorize All Those Algorithms in Math?

When it comes to teaching math, a debate has persisted for decades: How, and to what degree, should algorithms be a focus of learning math? The step-by-step procedures are among the most debated ...
Ars Technica

DeepMind breaks 50-year math record using AI; new record falls a week later

Matrix multiplication is at the heart of many machine learning breakthroughs, and it just got faster—twice. Last week, DeepMind announced it discovered a more efficient way to perform matrix ...
Time

Van Gogh and the Algorithm: How Math Can Save Art

It took X-ray fluorescence spectroscopy and a painting algorithm to reveal the hidden portrait of a peasant underneath the painting of Vincent Van Gogh’s “Patch of Grass.” And that feat, accomplished ...
JSTOR Daily

Efficient Algorithms for Transient Analysis of Stochastic Fluid Flow Models

We derive several algorithms for the busy period distribution of the canonical Markovian fluid flow model. One of them is similar to the Latouche-Ramaswami algorithm for quasi-birth-death models and ...
NPR

'Weapons Of Math Destruction' Outlines Dangers Of Relying On Data Analytics

NPR's Kelly McEvers talks with data scientist Cathy O'Neil about her new book, Weapons of Math Destruction, which describes the dangers of relying on big data analytics to solve problems. We are in a ...