It’s wild to think that a math puzzle from the 1200s is now helping power AI, encryption, and the digital world we live in.

Arabic numerals to Europe in 1202. His famous number sequence began as a simple rabbit puzzle. Centuries later, this sequence ...

The Monthly publishes articles, as well as notes and other features, about mathematics and the profession. Its readers span a broad spectrum of mathematical interests, and include professional ...

While humans and classical computers must perform tensor operations step by step, light can do them all at once.