Adventurous Math for the Playground Crowd" are back with another fun math game they call Function Machines. I introduced Maria Droujkova and Yelena McManaman last week. The two met when McManaman ...

This same idea is also applied in mathematics through the use of function machines. We use function machines to show the order in which rules (the function) should be carried out to a given number ...

Now, the team has introduced a neural network—an AI algorithm inspired by the brain’s structure and function ... taught in these math courses.” Drori is aware that his team still has work ahead.

Most people probably don’t think of mathematics when ... to find the fifth value of the function. The participants were looking for five-state Turing machines that perform as many calculation ...