Today we're looking at HyperLogLog, an algorithm that leverages random chance to count the number of distinct items are in a dataset. It does this by tracking the longest run of zeros in a binary ...

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and he okayed me posting them here. He’s taking the idea of categorifying the Riemann zeta function, explained in my paper, and going further, imagining what it might mean to categorify Riemann’s ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. All of modern mathematics is built on the foundation of set theory, the study of how to organize abstract collections of objects. But in ...

Imagine a world in which artificial intelligence is entrusted with the highest moral responsibilities: sentencing criminals, allocating medical resources, and even mediating conflicts between nations.

As a former preschool teacher and now teacher trainer, I’m always reflecting on my time in the classroom and what the landscape of education looked like when I taught, versus, a few short years later, ...

Abstract: The Internet of Things (IoT) is emerging as a critical technology to connect resource-constrained devices such as sensors and actuators as well as appliances to the Internet. In this paper, ...

A well-designed Multi-Tiered System of Support (MTSS) for elementary math supports teachers in effectively meeting students’ diverse needs by prioritizing high-quality, universal instruction that is ...

In 2019, mathematicians finally solved one of the hardest math problems—one that had stumped them for decades. It’s called a Diophantine Equation, and it’s sometimes known as the “summing of three ...

What is the largest natural number possible? By using the word natural, I have ruled out the possibility that you simply answer infinity (∞) to torpedo the guessing game. But even if we allowed ...