The path toward the hybrid future requires resistance against the path of least resistance. If you don't share your best self ...

Austrian economists have long criticized using mathematics to undergird economic analysis. It is time to apply that same ...

When AI health advice clashes with clinical judgment, trust is put to the test. Dr. Sahar Hashmi examines this growing ...

The image of the pomegranate has circulated through nearly every branch of culture–literature, religion, myth, and now the ...

The Northwestern CS Theory Group and Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago co-hosted the Junior Theorists Workshop held ...

For decades, modern banking systems have been built on a narrow definition of financial identity. You are considered “bankable” if you have a payslip, a formal employer, a credit history, collateral, ...

Recent survey delivers the first systematic benchmark of TSP solvers spanning end-to-end deep learners, hybrid methods and brand-new LLM-based hybrids, revealing that hybrids give best-in-class routes ...

Low-rank data analysis has emerged as a powerful paradigm across applied mathematics, statistics, and data science. With the rapid growth of modern datasets in size, dimensionality, and complexity, ...

Theory is our basic scientific tool for establishing knowledge. It dictates how we conduct patient care, teaching, and research. 1 Once adopted, it simply becomes automatic, those guided by it ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Imagine a town with two widget merchants. Customers prefer cheaper widgets, so the merchants must compete to set the lowest price.

All of modern mathematics is built on the foundation of set theory, the study of how to organize abstract collections of objects. But in general, research mathematicians don’t need to think about it ...

Imagine a town with two widget merchants. Customers prefer cheaper widgets, so the merchants must compete to set the lowest price. Unhappy with their meager profits, they meet one night in a ...