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Mathematics

The Gods of Logic

Before and after artificial intelligence

Odd Odds

From a preprint study posted on the Cornell University open-access archive arXiv in October that was conducted by researchers at more than a dozen European universities. A group of forty-eight…

Mathopotamia

by Simone Weil,

From a March 1940 letter to her brother, André, collected in A Life in Letters, which will be published next month by Harvard University Press. Translated from the French by…

Prime Factors

by Alec Wilkinson,

From A Divine Language, which will be published next month by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. 1. Prime numbers are those that can be divided cleanly only by themselves and by…

Divine Logic

by Stephen Budiansky,

Kurt Gödel’s last proof

Tinker, Tailor, Student, Spy

From instructions for a remote math test at Wilfrid Laurier University in Ontario in October 2020. Complete the practice quiz. After the practice quiz, start the setup test. Complete the…

Divide and Conquer

From a mathematics textbook for children between six and twelve years old, published by the Islamic State’s ministry of education. The Islamic State distributed copies of the textbook to schools…

Divide and Conquer

by Harper’s Magazine,

Sample problems from a mathematics textbook for children between six and twelve years old, published by the Islamic State’s ministry of education.

Political Calculus

by Lyubov Ulyakhina,Translated by Alan Yuhas,

From an interview with Lyubov Ulyakhina, an expert hired by the Russian Academy of Education, published in April on the Russian news site Znak.com. In March, Russia’s Ministry of Education…

Wrong Answer

by Nicholson Baker,

The case against Algebra II

Untitled

by Thomas Allen,

Mathematics

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The Gods of Logic

Odd Odds

Mathopotamia

Prime Factors

Divine Logic

Tinker, Tailor, Student, Spy

Divide and Conquer

Divide and Conquer

Political Calculus

Wrong Answer

Untitled

September 2013

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