A dude named Lenin assures us that his five year plan will be completed in 4 years and that progress is inevitable. Just tell me how many hundreds of thousands you ...

The role of advanced analytics in sports is a contentious subject. To its defenders, data-driven pragmatism is a natural evolutionary step in the way we play and watch games. For detractors, the ...

On April 29, the U.S. Supreme Court struck down Louisiana's voting map on the basis that the state had illegally used race as a consideration when it created a new majority-Black district. Observers ...

OpenAI's GPT-5.4 Pro model has apparently solved Erdős open math problem #1196. The model reportedly found the solution in about 80 minutes and prepared it as a LaTeX paper in another 30. Formal ...

What if you could predict the future, not with a crystal ball, but with math? In this guide, Veritasium explains how a 120-year-old concept called Markov chains has become a silent force shaping ...

The peculiarities of classical Greece make empirical theories of political revolution much easier to imagine than in, say, the Persian Empire, which was a hereditary monarchy for pretty much its ...

Why the challenge of truly representative democracy is so complex. Moon Duchin, who leads the University of Chicago’s Data and Democracy Research Initiative, explores how math can help solve ...

Recent financial crises and periods of market volatility have heightened awareness of risk contagion and systemic risk among financial analysts. As a result, financial professionals are often tasked ...

The Markov numbers reveal the secrets of irrational numbers and the patterns of the Fibonacci sequence. But there’s one question about them that has resisted proof for over a century. Most people are ...

Statistical seismology represents a promising and active research field in earthquake forecasting applications. It combines rigorous statistical methods and earth science, with the aim of improving ...