If you’re a hacker you may well have a passing interest in math, and if you have an interest in math you might like to hear about the direction of mathematical research. In a talk on this ...

It’s the theorem every mathematician believes in — yet no one can prove it. For decades, the brightest minds have tried and ...

Quantum versions of Bayes’ rule have been around for decades, but the approach through the minimum change principle had not ...

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GATE Electronics and Communication Engineering Syllabus 2026: The candidates who are planning to take the GATE Electronics and Communication Engineering (ECE) exam 2026 should ensure they are ...

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How likely you think something is to happen depends on what you already believe about the circumstances. That is the simple concept behind Bayes' rule, an approach to calculating probabilities, first ...

GATE Syllabus 2026 has been released by the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Guwahati for all 30 subjects. The syllabus serves as a roadmap for preparation, helping candidates cover important ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. In 1994, an earthquake of a proof shook up the mathematical world. The mathematician Andrew Wiles had finally settled Fermat’s Last ...