To understand how driverless vehicles can navigate the complexities of the road, researchers often use game theory—mathematical models representing the way rational agents behave strategically to meet their goals.
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March Madness is upon us and with it, the tradition of making tournament brackets. Where most of us see a grid of future travails and triumphs that will determine the NCAA Division I champions, Stanford mathematical geneticist ...
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Mar 14, 2023
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From March 15, more than 1 million young Australians will sit the NAPLAN numeracy test. For most students, this will just be a routine part of the school day (albeit less fun than running around at recess or lunch).
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Mar 13, 2023
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In 2021, KAUST ran the first international competition "Spatial Statistics for Large Datasets" using ExaGeoStat's reference datasets. Following that successful event, the Exascale Geostatistics Project (ExaGeoStat) led by ...
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Mar 6, 2023
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Have you ever wondered how pedestrians 'know' to fall into lanes when they are moving through a crowd, without the matter being discussed or even given conscious thought?
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Mar 3, 2023
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Researchers at the University of Tsukuba have created a new method for deriving approximate linear equations to complicated nonlinear problems. Using simulation results, they show that the model derived using their proposed ...
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Feb 27, 2023
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Using a new dataset, Rafael Prieto-Curiel of the Complexity Science Hub and colleagues analyzed the coordinates and surface of 183 million buildings in nearly 6,000 cities across all 52 countries in Africa. With their model, ...
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Feb 27, 2023
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In recent years, 19 states in the U.S. have developed pathways for elementary teachers to become certified elementary mathematics specialists.
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Feb 23, 2023
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For yet another year, the world's conference on climate change—COP27—concluded with few agreements and a clear division between North and South.
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Feb 16, 2023
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EPFL mathematicians, in collaboration with Purdue University, have settled a 30-year-old question about spheres and 4-dimensional spaces. The results bring new light to the "Euler class," one of the most powerful tools to ...
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