Dahlen is Professor at Stockholm School of Economics and Thorbjørnsen is Professor at Norwegian School of Economics. Together, they’ve written the book More Numbers Every Day How many numbers have ...

What is an Optical Illusion? An optical illusion is a visual phenomenon where the brain misinterprets what the eyes see.

As an undergraduate at the University of Chile, Bernardo Subercaseaux took a dim view of using computers to do math. It seemed antithetical to real intellectual discovery. “There’s some instinct or ...

Prime numbers have captivated mathematicians for centuries with their unpredictable and seemingly random distribution. In a groundbreaking preprint study, researchers devised a novel method that ...

A picture may be worth a thousand words, but how many numbers is a word worth? The question may sound silly, but it happens to be the foundation that underlies large language models, or LLMs — and ...