Mathematics news
Heads or tails? It all depends on some key variables
Oct 20, 2009 |
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Everyone knows the flip of a coin is a 50-50 proposition. Only it's not. You can beat the odds. So says a three-person team of Stanford and UC-Santa Cruz researchers. They produced a provocative study that turns conventional ...
A new kind of counting: Scientists develop computer algorithm to solve previously unsolvable counting problems
Feb 11, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- How many different sudokus are there? How many different ways are there to color in the countries on a map? And how do atoms behave in a solid? Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for ...
Researcher Discovers Method to Fully Process Encrypted Data Without Knowing its Content
Jun 25, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- An IBM Researcher has solved a thorny mathematical problem that has confounded scientists since the invention of public-key encryption several decades ago. The breakthrough, called "privacy homomorphism," ...
Wall Street rocket scientists crash to Earth
Apr 07, 2009 |
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There's a reason Wall Street resembles a rocket experiment gone wrong: rocket scientists helped make it happen.
What are the Chances? Probability Solves an Evolutionary Puzzle
Jan 30, 2009 |
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The origin of species may be almost as random as a throw of the dice. Iosif Pinelis, a professor of mathematical sciences at Michigan Technological University, has worked out a mathematical solution to a biological puzzle: ...
Random network connectivity can be delayed, but with explosive results, new study finds
Mar 12, 2009 |
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In the life of many successful networks, the connections between elements increase over time. As connections are added, there comes a critical moment when the network's overall connectivity rises rapidly with ...
French-Russian mathematician Gromov wins Abel prize
Mar 26, 2009 |
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French-Russian mathematician Mikhail Gromov on Thursday won one of the world's top mathematics award, Norway's Abel Prize, for "his revolutionary contributions to geometry," the prize committee said.
Mathematicians provide new insight into tsunamis
Apr 01, 2009 |
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A new mathematical formula that could be used to give advance warning of where a tsunami is likely to hit and how destructive it will be has been worked out by scientists at Newcastle University.
Relocation, relocation, relocation: Math could address climate change population concerns
Apr 01, 2009 |
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As sea levels rise in the wake of climate change and semi-arid regions turn to desert, people living in those parts of the world are likely to be displaced. A mathematical approach to planned relocation reported in the International Jo ...
Mathematics prize goes to University of Chicago's Hannah Alpert
Nov 18, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- The Association for Women in Mathematics has named Hannah Alpert, a third-year mathematics major at the University of Chicago, a co-winner of the 2010 Alice T. Schafer Prize for excellence in mathematics ...
Predicting politics: Professors model prediction markets
Jan 19, 2009 |
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Political prediction markets -- in which participants buy and sell "contracts" based on who they think will win an election -- accurately predicted Barack Obama's 2008 victory. Now Northwestern University researchers have ...
Physicist gets buzz from better bee behaviour model
Oct 13, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A physicist at the University of Manchester has paved the way for better research into how honey bees choose where to live.
Study: Why the best soccer teams don't always win
Oct 01, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A recent study, published in the October edition of the Journal of Applied Statistics, looked at soccer as being an experiment to determine which of two teams is superior, but their analys ...
Math used as a tool to heal toughest of wounds
Sep 21, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists expect a new mathematical model of chronic wound healing could replace intuition with clear guidance on how to test treatment strategies in tackling a major public-health problem.
New model suggests how the brain might stay in balance
Sep 24, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Physicists have theorized for decades about how neural networks might be able to accomplish the incredibly complex calculations the human brain performs all the time. But simply stabilizing ...
