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Learn how gradient descent really works by building it step by step in Python. No libraries, no shortcuts—just pure math and ...

The artificial intelligence (AI) program DeepMind has gotten closer to proving a math conjecture that's bedeviled mathematicians for decades and revealed another new conjecture that may unravel how ...

The National Science Foundation awarded two University of Dayton mathematicians nearly $275,000 to research the building blocks of biological systems and the geometry of four-dimensional spaces. Both ...

Sophia, which operates a free online social teaching and learning platform, this morning announced that it has acquired Guaranteach, a Web-based service that provides tens of thousands of short-form ...

Alberta Education is changing the way it delivers math, eliminating pure math and giving students entering high school more choices. Instead of having to choose between pure or applied math, new high ...

Source: Slide 15 of a PowerPoint presentation, accompanying a June 2016 OECD report, “Equations and Inequalities.” Click here for a larger version. Abstract, pure math — solving disembodied equations ...

Abstract, pure math – solving disembodied equations filled with x's and y's – can often seem boring. Creative math teachers commonly try to come up with concrete, real-world examples to motivate ...