Articles by

Stephen Ornes

Math long resisted a digital disruption. AI is poised to change that

Mathematician Kevin Buzzard of Imperial College London is training computers how to prove one of the most...

See how fractals forever changed math and science

Fifty years ago, “fractal” was born. In a 1975 book, the Polish-French-American mathematician Benoit B. Mandelbrot coined...

A New Quantum Algorithm Speeds Up Solving a Huge Class of Problems

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine.For computer scientists, solving problems is a bit...

Small Language Models Are the New Rage, Researchers Say

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine.Large language models work well because they’re so...