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The U.S. News & World Report rankings of colleges and universities are largely arbitrary, according to a new mathematical analysis.Published: Friday, October 3rd, 2008Found in: Numbers -
The mathematics of dynamical systems reveals ocean dynamics, an understanding that could improve the monitoring of ocean processes.Published: Saturday, September 27th, 2008Found in: Numbers -
The Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search, a cooperative computing project, helps find a prime that has nearly 13 million digits.Published: Saturday, September 20th, 2008Found in: Numbers -
Imagine twisting a beam of light into a knot, as if it were a piece of a string. Now grab another light beam and tie it around the first, forming its own loop. Tie on another and another, until all of space is filled up with loops of light. Sounds preposterous, but a pair of physicists has shown that light can do just this — at least in theory. Visible light, along with all other forms of electromagnetic radiation, is governed by Maxwell’s equations, and the researchers have found a new solution to these equations in which light forms linked knots. The team is now working to...Published: Friday, September 12th, 2008Found in: Numbers -
Henri Cartan, one of the leaders of a revolution in mathematics, dies at 104.Published: Friday, August 29th, 2008Found in: Numbers
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Mathematicians create videos that help in visualizing four-dimensional objects.Published: Friday, August 22nd, 2008Found in: Numbers -
Math Trek: If we have free will, so do subatomic particles, mathematicians claim to prove.Published: Friday, August 15th, 2008Found in: Numbers and Physics -
Quasicrystals are bizarre, rare, mysterious materials blending mathematical order and irregularity. A new, unexpected material halfway between a regular crystal and a quasicrystal may help reveal their secrets.Published: Friday, August 1st, 2008Found in: Numbers -
Math Trek: The National Aquatics Center in Beijing, newly built for the Olympics, is a glowing cube of bubbles. The mathematics behind it are built around Lord Kelvin's tetrakaidecahedra and the physics of foam.Published: Saturday, July 19th, 2008Found in: Numbers and Science & Society -
Who will win the election in November? A technique from baseball stats may predict the answer.Published: Friday, July 11th, 2008Found in: Numbers
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Two professional poker players will take on a computer, and this year the computer could win.Published: Friday, June 27th, 2008 -
During the whole of a dull, cramped and wearisome flight from Israel to New York, as the night pressed heavily against the airplane windows, Ariel Rubinstein had been toiling through a singularly dreary article on game theory; and at length the economist found himself, as the sharpness of his focus waned, seeking respite from the tedium in Edgar Allan Poe’s short story “The Purloined Letter.” But the economist’s work, it seemed, wouldn’t let him rest. For in the middle of the detective story, Poe launched into an analysis of game theory! Rubinstein read: “I ...Published: Friday, June 20th, 2008Found in: Numbers
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MATH TREK: The mathematicians thought they'd just extended a fundamental result in algebra, but it turns out that they'd also proven a conjecture in astrophysics.Published: Friday, June 13th, 2008Found in: Astronomy and Numbers -
Research shows that the greater the gender equality in a country, the more equal the math scores between boys and girls.Published: Thursday, June 5th, 2008Found in: Numbers and Science & Society
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A new approach to network theory focusing on the subcommunities within networks may shed light on everything from food webs to terrorist cells. It may even act as an oracle, helping scientists identify connections within a network they haven’t yet seen.Published: Monday, June 2nd, 2008Found in: Numbers
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