mathematics

In their paper, posted online in late November 2022, a key part of the proof involves showing that, for the most part, it doesn’t make sense to talk about whether a single die is strong or weak. Buffett’s dice, none of which is the…

Arizona Daily Star As the state’s high school basketball playoffs wind down, two Tucson teams remain. Both Catalina Foothills and Pueblo have reached the state semifinals of their respective divisions,…

Dennis Thompson MONDAY, Feb. 20, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- Shopping for cataract surgery, a heart valve replacement or a colonoscopy?You’re better able these days to compare what one hospital charges…

We do our best to brush off the annoying swarm of asks that shadow every restaurant meal, plumber visit, plane ride, pleading for points, stars, likes, thumbs-up (or middle fingers), if only because they’re nibbling away at our sanity.The…

Tim Carter, Tribune Content Agency You may wonder how I got my start as a builder. The hook was set in Boy Scouts, when I obtained my home repairs merit badge. I then helped pay my way through college…

One of the oldest and simplest problems in geometry has caught mathematicians off guard—and not for the first time.Since antiquity, artists and geometers have wondered how shapes can tile the entire plane without gaps or overlaps. And yet,…

Credit: Wolfgang Maria Weber / TUM Researchers at the Munich Institute of Robotics and Machine intelligence (MIRMI) at the Technical…

Mathematicians wanted to better understand these numbers that so closely resemble the most fundamental objects in number theory, the primes. It turned out that in 1899—a decade before Carmichael’s result—another mathematician, Alwin…

Recently, I watched a fellow particle physicist talk about a calculation he had pushed to a new height of precision. His tool? A 1980s-era computer program called FORM.Particle physicists use some of the longest equations in all of science.…

For centuries, mathematicians have sought to understand and model the motion of fluids. The equations that describe how ripples crease the surface of a pond have also helped researchers to predict the weather, design better airplanes, and…