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Losing Count: The Mathematical Magic of Counting Curves

How can you figure out which points lie on a certain curve? And how many possible curves do you coun ...
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How Mathematics Can Help You Divide Anything Up Fairly

Whether you are sharing a cake or a coastline, maths can help make sure everyone is happy with their ...
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Stress Testing Pension Funds—Researchers Present Technique Based on Hidden Markov ...

“We wanted to investigate how second pillar pension funds react to financial crises and how to ...
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Maths makes finding bat roosts much easier, our research shows

Finding bats is hard. They are small, fast and they primarily fly at night.  But our new research co ...
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Merging AI and Human Efforts to Tackle Complex Mathematical Problems

By rapidly analysing large amounts of data and making accurate predictions, artificial intelligence ...
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Study Finds Cooperation Can Still Evolve Even With Limited Payoff ...

Direct reciprocity facilitates cooperation in repeated social interactions. Traditional models sugge ...
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Students’ Awareness of Their Cognitive Processes Facilitates The Learning of ...

The purpose of education is to ensure that students acquire the skills necessary for succeeding in a ...
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Why expanding access to algebra is a matter of civil ...

Bob Moses, who helped register Black residents to vote in Mississippi during the Civil Rights Moveme ...
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Mathematicians Find Odd Shapes That Roll Like A Wheel In ...

Not content with shapes in two or three dimensions, mathematicians like to explore objects in any nu ...
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New Research Disproves a Long-Held ‘Cognitive Illusion’ That Hockey Goaltenders ...

The good news is that—statistically speaking—there is reason to believe Edmonton Oilers goalie Stuar ...
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Mathematicians Discover Impossible Problem In Super Mario Games

Using the tools of computational complexity, researchers have discovered it is impossible to figure ...
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Study Shows the Power of Social Connections to Predict Hit ...

Ever wondered how your friends shape your music taste? In a recent study, researchers at the Complex ...
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Wire-Cut Forensic Examinations Currently Too Unreliable For Court, New Study ...

A research article published June 10 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences highligh ...
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What toilet paper and game shows can teach us about ...

How can we explain and predict human behaviour? Are mathematics and probability up to the task, or a ...
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Mathematicians Can’t Agree What ‘Equals’ Means, And That’s A Problem

What does “equals” mean? For mathematicians, this simple question has more than one answ ...
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How can we make good decisions by observing others? A ...

How can disaster response teams benefit from understanding how people most efficiently pick strawber ...
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