Are thoughts more fundamental to our reality than particles? "Well, how can you talk if you haven't got a brain?" Dorothy asked the scarecrow. And after a moment's glance toward the sky, he replied ...

Adding one irrelevant sentence to math problems causes AI systems to make confident mistakes over 300 percent more.

Nineteenth-century German mathematician Carl Friedrich Gauss used to joke that he could calculate before he could talk. Maybe it was no joke. Recent work casts doubt on the notion that language ...

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They found that students assigned to teachers who used more mathematical vocabulary in their lessons made greater progress ...