When it comes to teaching math and science, is the grass always greener across the Pacific Ocean? “I'm working with educators to help prevent students from hating math before they even know what it is ...

Humans are usually pretty good at recognising when they get things wrong, but artificial intelligence systems are not. According to a new study, AI generally suffers from inherent limitations due to a ...

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You have probably encountered the base rate fallacy, and it probably fooled you. Part mathematical paradox and part cognitive ...

We recently wrote about how infinitely large sets are not all the same size as each other, but we were a bit vague about what we meant by a set. The people who invented set theory also started out ...

Editor’s Note: Published in 1957, this article comes from Martin Gardner’s legendary Scientific American column Mathematical Games. Read more in our special digital issue, Fun and Games. A paradox is ...