Computers fail at even simple math more often than many of us realize and that flaw is rooted in the architecture of the machines themselves. Using machine learning, Google might have discovered a way ...

This summer, battle lines were drawn over a simple math problem: 8 ÷ 2(2 + 2) = ? If you divide 8 by 2 first, you get 16, but if you multiply 2 by (2 + 2) first, you get 1. So, which answer is right?

Alan Richard Champneys is on the scientific board of the Smith Institute for Industrial Mathematics and Systems Engineering, receives funding from the UK Engineering and Physical Sciences Research ...