Mathly for Lua is a Lua module that turns Lua into a tiny, portable, free but powerful MATLAB and more. It provides a group of commonly used MATLAB functions and features, including linspace, zeros, ...

Australian actor Martin Grelis, who appeared in the 1999 first installment of The Matrix film series, has died at the age of 57. “Martin was a bright spark who lit up every room he was in—a talented ...

The idea that reality—the universe, our world, and everything we perceive—is a simulation has fascinated philosophers and scientists for millennia, but new findings suggest that the theory, despite ...

Humans started counting tens of thousands of years ago, but when did they begin figuring out advanced arithmetic, algebra and even calculus? When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an ...

Prime numbers—numbers divisible only by 1 and themselves—have long fascinated mathematicians. This year a researcher discovered the largest known prime number, with a whopping 41,024,320 digits. It ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. David Bessis was drawn to mathematics for the same reason that many people are driven away: He didn’t understand how it worked. Unlike ...

AlphaProof and AlphaGeometry 2 are steps toward building systems that can reason, which could unlock exciting new capabilities. AI models can easily generate essays and other types of text. However, ...

The Glitch in the Matrix phenomenon is an uncanny experience that seemingly can’t be explained rationally. As its name suggests, it’s inspired by a scene in 1999 sci-fi blockbuster The Matrix. Here, ...

Even so, The Matrix Awakens contains at least one conventional gameplay experience. Playing as hero character IO, you take part in a freeway chase reminiscent of the one in 2003’s The Matrix Reloaded.

Top students can benefit greatly by being offered the subject early. But many districts offer few Black and Latino eighth graders a chance to study it. By Troy Closson From suburbs in the Northeast to ...