Find out how and why mathematics is used in microeconomics, its limitations, and the math skills that economics students need.

Christmas Eve in America, and the best gift at many gas stations is the sign out front: prices that feel almost retro by recent standards. AAA says the national average slipped back under three ...

$75M Series A in September 2024 led by Sequoia Capital $100M Series B in July 2025 led by Kleiner Perkins $120M Series C now With the new round, Harmonic’s total funding reaches approximately $295 ...

In the past two decades, computers have gradually toppled human champions in games of perfect information. It mastered checkers, then chess (Deep Blue), and finally, the profoundly complex game of Go ...

For decades, philosophers, technologists, and even billionaires like Elon Musk have toyed with the idea that our universe might be a highly sophisticated computer simulation. The idea represents one ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. In 1974, five years before he wrote his Pulitzer Prize–winning book Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid, Douglas Hofstadter was ...

Physicists present evidence that the universe is not a computer simulation. Credit: Amanclos / CC BY 2.0 / Flickr A team of physicists has presented new mathematical evidence that challenges the ...

Mathematical proof debunks the idea that the universe is a computer simulation by Patty Wellborn, University of British Columbia edited by Gaby Clark, reviewed by Robert Egan Editors' notes ...

A fundamental link between two counterintuitive phenomena in spin glasses— reentrance and temperature chaos—has been mathematically proven for the first time. By extending the Edwards–Anderson model ...