A mighty number falls
Mathematicians and number buffs have their records. And today, an international team has broken a long-standing one in an impressive feat of calculation.
Mathematics
May 21, 2007
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An algorithm that shapes objects to cause them to roll down ramps following a desired path
A team of physicists and mathematicians at the Institute for Basic Science's Center for Soft and Living Matter, in South Korea, working with a colleague from the University of Geneva, has developed an algorithm that can be ...
Religion on the verge of extinction in many countries: math study
(PhysOrg.com) -- A study recently released by a team from Northwestern University and the University of Arizona shows that religion and religious affiliations may be on the verge of extinction in the nine countries studied. ...
Mathematician uncovers methods to shrink sampling errors in large-dimensional data sets
A professor in Florida State University's Department of Mathematics has made a breakthrough that will allow scientists across academic disciplines and financial institutions to shrink sampling errors concerning high-dimensional ...
Mathematics
Mar 28, 2023
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The faster-than-fast Fourier transform
The Fourier transform is one of the most fundamental concepts in the information sciences. It’s a method for representing an irregular signal — such as the voltage fluctuations in the wire that connects an MP3 ...
Mathematics
Jan 18, 2012
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Quantum compute this—Mathematicians build code to take on toughest of cyber attacks
Washington State University mathematicians have designed an encryption code capable of fending off the phenomenal hacking power of a quantum computer.
Mathematics
Mar 26, 2015
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How to escape a maze – according to maths
Mazes are in vogue at the moment, from NBO's Westworld, to the return of the British cult TV series, The Crystal Maze. But mazes have been around for millennia and one of the most famous mazes, the Labyrinth home of the Minotaur, ...
Mathematics
Jan 26, 2017
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Mathematician to present a proof of the Sensitivity Conjecture
The Sensitivity Conjecture has stood as one of the most important, and baffling, open problems in theoretical computer science for nearly three decades. It appears to have finally met its match through work by Hao Huang, ...
Mathematics
Jul 10, 2019
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Mathematicians Solve the 'Cocktail Party Problem'
Officials at the CIA and scientists around the world have pondered the "cocktail party problem" for decades. How could they separate one sound - perhaps a voice - from a group of other recorded sounds, perhaps a multitude ...
Mathematics
Aug 22, 2006
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Surprising mathematical law tested on Project Gutenberg texts
Zipf's law in its simplest form, as formulated in the thirties by American linguist George Kingsley Zipf, states surprisingly that the most frequently occurring word in a text appears twice as often as the next most frequent ...
Mathematics
Feb 22, 2016
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