How 'algorithm' got its name from a 9th-century Persian mathematician

Kharizmi helped solidify the concept of algorithms in mathematics and popularized algebra and the use of the zero.
Time

Van Gogh and the Algorithm: How Math Can Save Art

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Ars Technica

DeepMind breaks 50-year math record using AI; new record falls a week later

Matrix multiplication is at the heart of many machine learning breakthroughs, and it just got faster—twice. Last week, DeepMind announced it discovered a more efficient way to perform matrix ...
Business Insider

Data scientist at TED: Algorithms are a 'weapon of math destruction' that need to be regulated

Algorithms are increasingly prevalent in everything we do, from getting insurance to applying to jobs (if the algorithm doesn't pick your application from a big pile, good luck). While it may seem ...
Bloomberg L.P.

How Algorithms Can Hurt Society: A Chat With Math Radical Cathy O’Neil

Cathy O’Neil believes there is a dark side to numbers. A mathematician by training, she earned her doctorate at Harvard and went on to become a tenure-track professor at Barnard College. In 2007, ...