The incompleteness theorem is accepted as part of the mathematical canon today, but columnist Jacob Aron says it was a ...

“I’ve spent a long time exploring the crystalline beauty of traditional mathematics, but now I’m feeling an urge to study something slightly more earthy,” John Baez wrote on his blog in 2011. An ...

Below, Tom Griffiths shares five key insights from his new book, The Laws of Thought: The Quest for a Mathematical Theory of the Mind. Griffiths is a professor of psychology and computer science at ...

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Logic studies how arguments work, and how ideas can fit together. Decision theory studies how decisions should be made, especially under uncertainty. Game theory considers how we reason strategically, ...

Researchers at Stanford and Caltech have found some critical reasoning failures in advanced AI models. LLMs are great at recognizing patterns, but they have trouble with basic logic, social reasoning, ...

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Successfully introducing new characters to a popular sitcom can be challenging, but "The Big Bang Theory" is notorious for doing so on several occasions, with Melissa Rauch — who has since reunited ...

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 ...

Get set theory explained in a clear and complete way, covering everything you need to know from basic definitions to key operations and ideas. This video walks through sets, subsets, unions, ...