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Decade-Long Struggle Over Maths Proof Could Be Decided By $1m ...

Mathematician Shinichi Mochizuki’s Inter-universal Teichmüller theory has attracted controvers ...
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UK hobbyist stuns math world with ‘amazing’ new shapes

David Smith, a retired print technician from the north of England, was pursuing his hobby of looking ...
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Exploring how community-based social norms evolve

Cooperation is a guiding principle of everyday life. It’s as simple as following the rules of ...
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Global symmetry found to be not completely necessary for the ...

An international team led by researchers at Nankai University in China and at University of Zagreb i ...
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Researchers develop online hate speech ‘shockwave’ formula

A George Washington University research team has created a novel formula that demonstrates how, why, ...
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Butterfly chaos effect’ discovered in swarms and herds of animals

Researchers at the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (UC3M) and the Universidad Complutense de Madrid ...
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Implications of no-free-lunch theorems

In the 18th century, the philosopher David Hume observed that induction—inferring the future based o ...
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Mathematicians Make Even Better Never-Repeating Tile Discovery

An unsatisfying caveat in a mathematical breakthrough discovery of a single tile shape that can cove ...
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Exploring ‘compellingness’ in mechanism design

Consider an auction. You have two types of main protagonists or agents: a seller (or auctioneer) and ...
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Theoretical study offers proof that one parallel world cannot be ...

Theoretical string theory in theoretical physics predicts the existence of parallel worlds (mirror s ...
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Human crowds are best modelled by a ‘visual neighbourhood’

Human crowd dynamics are best predicted by a visual neighbourhood model, based on the visual fields ...
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Machine learning model analyses why couples break up

What does artificial intelligence offer that goes beyond traditional statistical models, such as reg ...
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Study: German youth show weaker performance in math, reading and ...

Young people in Germany are less proficient in mathematics, reading and science as compared to 2018. ...
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Mathematical model based on psychology predicts who will buy trendy ...

It’s often risky to introduce new products to the market. In fact, statistics show that betwee ...
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How Maths Reveals The Best Time to Add Milk For ...

If you want your cup of tea to stay as hot as possible, should you put milk in immediately, or wait ...
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Math teachers hold a bias against girls when the teachers ...

Math teachers who believe women no longer face discrimination tend to be biased against girls’ ...
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