Mathematical optimization offers today’s businesses a fundamentally different approach to worst-case scenario prepping. Rather than relying on gut instinct and static data, optimization leverages ...

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How end-to-end encryption is the wall that keeps our digital secrets safe – and why modern life would be unimaginable without ...

Laboratories turned to a smart workaround when COVID‑19 testing kits became scarce in 2020. They mixed samples from several ...

“Imagine a computation that produces a new bit of information in every step, based on the bits that it has computed so far. Over t steps of time, it may generate up to t new bits of information in ...

They found that students assigned to teachers who used more mathematical vocabulary in their lessons made greater progress ...

Discover how Markov chains predict real systems, from Ulam and von Neumann’s Monte Carlo to PageRank, so you can grasp ...

Math teacher Emma Chiappetta uses a three-round exercise to help students not only recognize their errors, but also generate ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. All of modern mathematics is built on the foundation of set theory, the study of how to organize abstract collections of objects. But in ...

According to @ai_darpa citing @Tech_girlll, the underlying mathematics is the silent force driving all AI advancements, regardless of ongoing debates among developers ...

Visually, the “Klein bottle” doesn’t seem all that impressive. On first glance it looks like a trendy Japandi-style vase. And yet it has fascinated mathematicians for more than 140 years. To ...

If you happen to be on a Texas highway sometime this summer, and see a 50,000-pound semi truck barreling along with nobody behind the wheel, just remember: A self-driving truck is less likely to kill ...