Mathematicians have discovered a problem they cannot solve. It's not that they're not smart enough; there simply is no answer. The problem has to do with machine learning — the type of ...

Artificial intelligence (AI) is trending globally in commerce, science, health care, geopolitics, and more. Deep learning, a subset of machine learning, is the lever that launched the worldwide ...

A team of researchers has stumbled on a question that is mathematically unanswerable because it is linked to logical paradoxes discovered by Austrian mathematician Kurt Gödel in the 1930s that can’t ...

NEW YORK — Despite being in existence for more than 2,000 years, the concept of infinity has endured as an enigmatic, and oftentimes challenging, idea for mathematicians, physicists and philosophers.

Artificial intelligence (AI) is trending globally in commerce, science, health care, geopolitics, and more. Deep learning, a subset of machine learning, is the lever that launched the worldwide ...

Georg Cantor was a German mathematician of Iberian Jewish descent whom Bertrand Russell considered to be one of the greatest minds of the 19th century. In the course of a colorful but unhappy life, ...

In popular literature written by pedlars of postmodern nonsense, Austrian logician Kurt Gödel is often said to have destroyed mathematical certainty with his incompleteness theorems – which say there ...

Set theory, the mathematical study of collections of objects, forms a foundation for much of modern mathematics, while cardinal functions provide a means to quantify the sizes of these sets, ...