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Mathematicians move the needle on the Kakeya conjecture, a decades-old geometric problem
Mathematicians from New York University and the University of British Columbia have resolved a decades-old geometric problem, the Kakeya conjecture in 3D, which studies the shape left behind by a needle moving in multiple ...
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Mar 12, 2025
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Study finds soccer teams move as though they are a single person, offering new insights into collective behavior
What do albatrosses searching for food, stock market fluctuations, and the dispersal patterns of seeds in the wind have in common?
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Mar 11, 2025
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Boys in England significantly outperforming girls in math and science
Recent data shows boys in years 5 and 9 in England have scored significantly higher than girls in math and science compared with 2019, report UCL researchers who analyzed the latest Trends in International Mathematics and ...
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Mar 11, 2025
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How will artificial intelligence affect wealth equality?
How will artificial intelligence affect the distribution of income and wealth this century? After falling through much of the 20th century, income inequality, measured as the fraction of income going to the richest 1% of ...
Taking a leap of faith into imaginary numbers opens new doors in the real world through complex analysis
To a nonmathematician, having the letter "i" represent a number that does not quite exist and is "imaginary" can be hard to wrap your head around. If you open your mind to this way of thinking, however, a whole new world ...
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Mar 10, 2025
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How good are South African kids at math? Trends from a global study
School mathematics in South Africa is often seen as a sign of the health of the education system more generally. Under the racial laws of apartheid, until 1994, African people were severely restricted from learning math. ...
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Mar 10, 2025
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Dudeney's 120-year-old dissection puzzle solution proves optimal
In 1907, the English author and mathematician Henry Ernest Dudeney posed a puzzle: Can any equilateral triangle be cut into as few pieces as possible that will fit together to form a perfect square? Four weeks later, he presented ...
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Mar 10, 2025
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AI-based math: Individualized support for students uses eye tracking
Researchers at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) and the University of Cologne have developed an AI-based learning system that recognizes strengths and weaknesses in mathematics by tracking eye movements with a webcam ...
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Mar 10, 2025
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Hiring strategies: Researchers propose a model to maximize success in professional recruitment
When it comes to hiring new staff, large companies often have to choose from hundreds of candidates, a process that requires time and resources. Can mathematics help streamline these procedures? At least in the broadest sense, ...
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Mar 10, 2025
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Nessie loves a sunny summer's day—how anecdotes become data
New research from the University of St Andrews has used a database of Loch Ness Monster reports to translate anecdotes into data, shedding light on statistical biases and the importance of defining the right information for ...
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Mar 5, 2025
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The math behind social distancing: The rules that influence epidemic behavior
Studying epidemics can help us plan for the future and identify better ways of dealing with them. Now, in a new study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, a multi-institutional research team led ...
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Mar 4, 2025
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Mathematical model improves prediction of human mobility between cities
How many people will travel during a given week between two specific cities? Answering this question is important for many reasons, for example, to design efficient public transport infrastructures, or, as was the case during ...
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Feb 27, 2025
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What's the shape of the universe? Mathematicians use topology to study its shape and everything in it
When you look at your surrounding environment, it might seem like you're living on a flat plane. After all, this is why you can navigate a new city using a map: a flat piece of paper that represents all the places around ...
Mathematics
Feb 26, 2025
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From slime molds to corporations, traveling networks chart a new path
You can learn a lot from a little slime mold. For Nate Cira, assistant professor of biomedical engineering in Cornell Engineering, the tiny eukaryotic organism provided inspiration for modeling "traveling networks"—connected ...
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Feb 26, 2025
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Mathematicians introduce crossing matrices to decode doubly periodic weaves
Doubly periodic weaves—entangled structures with repeating patterns in two independent directions—pose a mathematical challenge. Originally conceived to model real-world structures, such as woven textiles and molecular ...
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Feb 25, 2025
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Model suggests voter turnout alone can predict election victory margins
Elections are a well-documented example of collective human decision-making, with voting data available for elections globally over several decades. SFI Complexity Postdoctoral Fellow Aanjaneya Kumar, along with former colleagues ...
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Feb 17, 2025
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AI program plays the long game to solve decades-old math problems
A game of chess requires its players to think several moves ahead, a skill that computer programs have mastered over the years. Back in 1996, an IBM supercomputer famously beat the then world chess champion Garry Kasparov. ...
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Feb 12, 2025
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Can math save content creators? A new model proposes fairer revenue distribution methods for streaming services
As more consumers turn to subscription-based platforms, the distribution of revenue in streaming services has become a crucial issue in the digital economy. Content creators and artists argue that the current models are opaque, ...
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Feb 12, 2025
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Scientists analyze branch patterns in trees and art, from da Vinci to Mondrian
The math that describes the branching pattern of trees in nature also holds for trees depicted in art—and may even underlie our ability to recognize artworks as depictions of trees.
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Feb 11, 2025
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The butterfly effect: This obscure mathematical concept has become an everyday idea, but do we have it all wrong?
In 1972, the US meteorologist Edward Lorenz asked a now-famous question: "Does the flap of a butterfly's wings in Brazil set off a tornado in Texas?"
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Feb 6, 2025
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