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The Americans With Disabilities Act, passed in 1990, was meant to make life fairer for people like Stein. The law required public and private institutions to provide reasonable accommodations to ...
Life gets busy, and sometimes those basic math skills from school days get a little rusty. Whether you're budgeting, ...
This is a solution manual for Paolo Aluffi's ALGEBRA, Chapter 0, a textbook that introduces abstract algebra using the language of categories. I find this approach to be particularly appealing. So I'm ...
Some AI prompts result in 50 times more carbon emissions than others, according to a new study. The findings suggest that large language models (LLMs)—the technology behind advanced chatbots and ...
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For centuries, mathematicians have been haunted by a simple question: Can all polynomial equations be solved, no matter how complex they are? Since the 19th century, the answer seemed to be a ...
Two mathematicians have used a new geometric approach in order to address a very old problem in algebra. In school, we often learn how to multiply out and factor polynomial equations like (x² – 1) or ...
Two mathematicians have used a new geometric approach in order to address a very old problem in algebra. In school, we often learn how to multiply out and factor polynomial equations like (x² – 1) or ...
Abstract: This work-in-progress paper investigates the integration of ChatGPT, an advanced AI language model, as a grading tool for algebra problems in educational settings. From an academic ...
Solving one of the oldest algebra problems isn't a bad claim to fame, and it's a claim Norman Wildberger can now make: The mathematician has solved what are known as higher-degree polynomial equations ...