Mathematics news
Composer reveals musical chords' hidden geometry
Jul 06, 2006 |
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Composers often speak of fitting chords and melodies together, as though sounds were physical objects with geometric shape -- and now a Princeton University musician has shown that advanced geometry actually does offer a ...
Making waves: Mathematicians crack quantum chaos conjecture
Oct 10, 2008 |
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The American Institute of Mathematics announces that Soundararajan and Roman Holowinsky have proven a significant version of the quantum unique ergodicity conjecture. Their work, based in the pure mathematics area of number ...
Glimpses of a new (mathematical) world
Mar 13, 2008 |
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A new mathematical object was revealed yesterday during a lecture at the American Institute of Mathematics (AIM). Two researchers from the University of Bristol exhibited the first example of a third degree transcendental ...
Northeastern University researchers solve Rubik's Cube in 26 moves
May 31, 2007 |
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It’s a toy that most kids have played with at one time or another, but the findings of Northeastern University Computer Science professor Gene Cooperman and graduate student Dan Kunkle are not child’s play. ...
US culture derails girl math whizzes
Oct 10, 2008 |
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A culture of neglect and, at some age levels, outright social ostracism, is derailing a generation of students, especially girls, deemed the very best in mathematics, according to a new study.
New mathematical method provides better way to analyze noise
Jun 08, 2006 |
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Humans have 200 million light receptors in their eyes, 10 to 20 million receptors devoted to smell, but only 8,000 dedicated to sound. Yet despite this miniscule number, the auditory system is the fastest of ...
How a simple mathematic formula is starting to explain the bizarre prevalence of altruism in society
Jul 18, 2008 |
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Why do humans cooperate in things as diverse as environment conservation or the creation of fairer societies, even when they don’t receive anything in exchange or, worst, they might even be penalized?
Proof by computer: Harnessing the power of computers to verify mathematical proofs
Nov 06, 2008 |
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New computer tools have the potential to revolutionize the practice of mathematics by providing far more-reliable proofs of mathematical results than have ever been possible in the history of humankind. These computer tools, ...
Brown mathematicians prove new way to build a better estimate
Feb 29, 2008 |
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How do you sift through hundreds of billions of bits of information and make accurate inferences from such gargantuan sets of data? Brown University mathematician Charles “Chip” Lawrence and graduate student Luis Carvalho ...
Fate might not be so unpredictable after all, study suggests
Dec 03, 2007 |
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Why does it take so long for soul mates to find each other? How does disease spread through a person’s body? When will the next computer virus attack your hard-drive?
Mathematicians predict the future of the past tense
Oct 10, 2007 |
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Verbs evolve and homogenize at a rate inversely proportional to their prevalence in the English language, according to a formula developed by Harvard University mathematicians who've invoked evolutionary principles to study ...
The crash of 2008: A mathematician's view
Dec 09, 2008 |
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Markets need regulation to stay stable. We have had thirty years of financial deregulation. Now we are seeing chickens coming home to roost. This is the key argument of Professor Nick Bingham, a mathematician at Imperial ...
Airbags, Antilock Brakes Not Likely to Reduce Accidents, Injuries
Sep 27, 2006 |
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Researchers have determined that airbags and antilock braking systems do not reduce the likelihood of accidents or injuries because they may encourage more aggressive driving, thwarting the potential benefits of such safety ...
Where mathematics and astrophysics meet
Jun 05, 2008 |
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The mathematicians were trying to extend an illustrious result in their field, the Fundamental Theorem of Algebra. The astrophysicists were working on a fundamental problem in their field, the problem of gravitational ...
Hunting the elusive L-function
Aug 06, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- There was a lot of excitement last month about ‘L-functions’. A PhD student in the Department of Mathematics, University of Bristol, Ce Bian, in collaboration with his supervisor, Dr Andrew ...
