Education Week

Debates Over Math Teaching Are Heating Up. They Could Affect Classrooms

A controversial new movement promoting the "science of math" has come into the math establishment's crosshairs.

Meet The ‘Star Of Pure Land,’ A 3,563-Carat Sapphire Valued At $300 Million

Despite their sturdy provenance in the earth's mantle, great sapphires are a fragile commodity. Here, Sri Lanka's newest ...
Alfred University

When Math overlaps with art: Alfred Math Professor Amanda Lipnicki and students explore non-Euclidean geometry through crocheting and knitting

When Alfred University Associate Math Professor Amanda Lipnicki took up knitting as an undergraduate student, she didnt immediately recognize how mathematics and geometry underlay the patterns of ...
The Washburn Review

Student perspective: Math convention unites art and mathematics

Can a person like mathematics and art at the same time? Mohammad Asfaque, senior pure mathematics and economics major, has ...
Science Daily

These mesmerizing patterns are secretly solving hard problems

Tessellations aren’t just eye-catching patterns—they can be used to crack complex mathematical problems. By repeatedly reflecting shapes to tile a surface, researchers uncovered a method that links ...
marktechpost

Liquid AI’s LFM2-2.6B-Exp Uses Pure Reinforcement Learning RL And Dynamic Hybrid Reasoning To Tighten Small Model Behavior

Liquid AI has introduced LFM2-2.6B-Exp, an experimental checkpoint of its LFM2-2.6B language model that is trained with pure reinforcement learning on top of the existing LFM2 stack. The goal is ...