High number of adults unable to do basic mathematical tasks
Suppose, a litre of cola costs US$3.15. If you buy one third of a litre of cola, how much would you pay?
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Here's the best way to shuffle a pack of cards – with a little help from some maths
Shuffling a pack of cards isn't as easy as you think, not if you want to truly randomise the cards. Most people will give a pack a few shuffles with the overhand or riffle methods (where the pack is split and the two halves ...
Mathematics
Feb 23, 2017
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'Smaller is smarter' in superspreading of influence in social network
A study by City College of New York physicists Flaviano Morone and Hernán A. Makse suggests that "smaller is smarter" when it comes to influential superspreaders of information in social networks. This is a major shift from ...
Mathematics
Jul 1, 2015
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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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Heads or tails? A mathematician breaks down the odds
With punters preparing to mark Anzac Day with a game of two-up, a mathematician from The Australian National University (ANU) has revealed some of the game's statistical secrets.
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Apr 22, 2022
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Blog comment, collab help man attack old maths problem
Chris Cesare in Nature reported on Friday that Terence Tao successfully attacked the Erdős discrepancy problem by building on an online collaboration. Tao is a professor in the math department at UCLA. He works primarily ...
An online game reveals something fishy about mathematical models
How can you tell if your mathematical model is good enough? In a new study, researchers from Uppsala University implemented a Turing test in the form of an online game (with over 1700 players) to assess how good their models ...
Mathematics
Dec 1, 2015
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Decision cascades in social networks
How do people in a social network behave? How are opinions, decisions and behaviors of individuals influenced by their online networks? Can the application of math help answer these questions?
Mathematics
Dec 22, 2014
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To probe an unexplored space of hard problems, researchers play the devil's advocate
In computer science, the graph coloring problem is a classic. Inspired by the map-coloring problem, it asks: Given a network of nodes connected by links, what's the minimum number of colors you need to color each node so ...
Mathematics
Oct 12, 2021
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Fair cake cutting gets its own algorithm
The next time your children quibble about who gets to eat which part of a cake, call in some experts on the art of sharing. Mathematician Julius Barbanel of Union College, and political scientist Steven Brams of New York ...
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Jul 16, 2014
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