Classical physics is characterized by the equations describing the world. Yet our day-to-day experience is struck by this deterministic vision of the world. A physicist has been analyzing the ...

Following up on his three posts on classical education yesterday, Gene Veith weighs in on mathematics instruction: I admit that classical education may be lagging in the math department. The new ...

University of Surrey’s Prof Dorje C Brody makes the case for developing AI that follows quantum rules to get closer to the functioning of the human brain. Human behaviour is an enigma that fascinates ...

Bates is welcoming a large group of new faculty this year. Seventeen tenured or tenure-track professors will join the college in the course of the 2025-2026 academic year. Bates News is introducing ...

The laws of physics imply that the passage of time is an illusion. To avoid this conclusion, we might have to rethink the reality of infinitely precise numbers. Strangely, although we feel as if we ...

Classical Math Problem Gets Pulled Into the Modern World | RealClearScience Long before robots could run or cars could drive themselves, mathematicians contemplated a simple mathematical question.