Why Does This Matter? The discovery that crows can understand recursion is groundbreaking. Neuroscientist Giorgio Vallortigara, who was not involved in the study, noted that while crows lack ...

Researchers at the University of Tübingen have found via experimentation that crows are capable of understanding the concept of recursion. In their paper published in the journal Science Advances ...

They say that in order to understand recursion, you must first understand recursion. Once you master that concept, you might decide that it’s time to write your own compiler that can compile … ...

Experience and research suggest that there is a line between people who have the ability to understand variables, pointers, and recursion, and those who don't.