Math

  1. Math

    A frustrating view of complexity

    The unifying theme of complex systems, a researcher argues, is frustration.

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  2. Math

    Counting how votes count

    A rational person will vote, economists show, as an act of altruism.

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  3. Math

    An infinite beautiful mind

    Theorem identifies cases in which infinite-choice games will have at least one Nash equilibrium.

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  4. Math

    Numbers don’t add up for U.S. girls

    Culture may turn potentially high achievers away from math, new study suggests.

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  5. Math

    Rating the rankings

    The U.S. News & World Report rankings of colleges and universities are largely arbitrary, according to a new mathematical analysis.

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  6. Math

    Following the ocean swirls

    The mathematics of dynamical systems reveals ocean dynamics, an understanding that could improve the monitoring of ocean processes.

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  7. Math

    Largest known prime number found

    The Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search, a cooperative computing project, helps find a prime that has nearly 13 million digits.

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  8. Math

    A knot of light

    Researchers find a new theoretical way to tie light into complex knots and links.

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  9. Math

    Founder of the Secret Society of Mathematicians

    Henri Cartan, one of the leaders of a revolution in mathematics, dies at 104.

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  10. Physics

    It’s Likely That Times Are Changing

    A century ago, mathematician Hermann Minkowski famously merged space with time, establishing a new foundation for physics; today physicists are rethinking how the two should fit together

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  11. Math

    Seeing in four dimensions

    Mathematicians create videos that help in visualizing four-dimensional objects.

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  12. Math

    Do subatomic particles have free will?

    Math Trek: If we have free will, so do subatomic particles, mathematicians claim to prove.

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