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Researcher solves nearly 60-year-old game theory dilemma
To understand how driverless vehicles can navigate the complexities of the road, researchers often use game theory—mathematical models representing the way rational agents behave strategically to meet their goals.
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Researcher applies evolutionary math to March Madness
March Madness is upon us and with it, the tradition of making tournament brackets. Where most of us see a grid of future travails and triumphs that will determine the NCAA Division I champions, Stanford mathematical geneticist ...
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'Math anxiety' is a real thing. Here are three ways to help your child cope
From March 15, more than 1 million young Australians will sit the NAPLAN numeracy test. For most students, this will just be a routine part of the school day (albeit less fun than running around at recess or lunch).
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Mar 13, 2023
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Competition on spatial statistics showcases the global state of the art in analyzing vast spatial datasets
In 2021, KAUST ran the first international competition "Spatial Statistics for Large Datasets" using ExaGeoStat's reference datasets. Following that successful event, the Exascale Geostatistics Project (ExaGeoStat) led by ...
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Mar 6, 2023
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Stick to your lane: Hidden order in chaotic crowds
Have you ever wondered how pedestrians 'know' to fall into lanes when they are moving through a crowd, without the matter being discussed or even given conscious thought?
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Mar 3, 2023
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New method for deriving approximate linear equations to complicated nonlinear problems
Researchers at the University of Tsukuba have created a new method for deriving approximate linear equations to complicated nonlinear problems. Using simulation results, they show that the model derived using their proposed ...
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Feb 27, 2023
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Measuring 6,000 African cities: Double the population means triple the energy costs
Using a new dataset, Rafael Prieto-Curiel of the Complexity Science Hub and colleagues analyzed the coordinates and surface of 183 million buildings in nearly 6,000 cities across all 52 countries in Africa. With their model, ...
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Feb 27, 2023
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Mentorship during residency helps make elementary mathematics specialists successful
In recent years, 19 states in the U.S. have developed pathways for elementary teachers to become certified elementary mathematics specialists.
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Feb 23, 2023
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Shake and divide: The cocktail formula for global consensus
For yet another year, the world's conference on climate change—COP27—concluded with few agreements and a clear division between North and South.
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Feb 16, 2023
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Mathematicians answer questions about spheres and 4D spaces, expand scope of the Euler class
EPFL mathematicians, in collaboration with Purdue University, have settled a 30-year-old question about spheres and 4-dimensional spaces. The results bring new light to the "Euler class," one of the most powerful tools to ...
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Feb 14, 2023
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What are the odds of brothers meeting in a Super Bowl? Not as high as you might think
Before Donna Kelce delivered homemade cookies to her sons earlier this week, she contemplated the odds of Jason and Travis Kelce set to become the first brothers to play on opposing teams in the Super Bowl.
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Feb 10, 2023
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Investors also suffer in unregulated competition for freely available resources, study finds
Without regulations for their use, the condition of freely accessible resources such as fish stocks, water or air can deteriorate dramatically. In economics, this is referred to as the "Tragedy of the Commons." In 2009, Elinor ...
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Feb 8, 2023
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Math that will help you as an adult: From baking a cake to asking for a raise
The prime minister, Rishi Sunak, has proposed that school pupils should continue learning maths until 18 in order to obtain the numeracy skills needed in careers and everyday adult life. This proposal may be useful to current ...
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Feb 8, 2023
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Size of X-ray beams successfully evaluated with mathematics
X-ray fluorescence analysis allows elemental analysis in a variety of environments without destroying the sample. The smaller diameter of the X-ray microbeam, the more accurate the elemental distribution can be. Because X-ray ...
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Feb 8, 2023
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Mathematician develops equations that seek to bridge the micro and macro realms
Particles tend to behave differently once there are a lot of them. The microscopic models that describe their behavior quickly become very hard to calculate, because of the increasing complexity and the sheer volume of the ...
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Feb 7, 2023
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Why teachers are letting students solve math problems in lots of different ways
Families might be wondering why their child's math classroom looks so different from what they remember in school.
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Feb 1, 2023
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A model that predicts wrinkle patterns on the surface of toroidal structures as they expand or contract
A team of researchers from Fudan University and Université de Lorraine has built a model that can predict the wrinkle patterns that will develop on toroidal structures if they expand or contract. In their paper published ...
Mathematicians prove the existence of hidden attractors in an electrical circuit
Scientists from St Petersburg University and the Kotelnikov Institute of Radioengineering and Electronics of the Russian Academy of Sciences (IRE RAS), together with Professor Leon Chua from the University of California, ...
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Jan 24, 2023
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How spatial thinking could help children learn math
Do you struggle to visualize how to rotate your shoes so that they nest together in a shoe box?
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Jan 24, 2023
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Report: Taking 12th grade math opens door to higher education
Students who take math in the 12th grade improve their chances of enrolling and continuing in higher education, according to a new report by the Los Angeles Education Research Institute at UCLA.
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Jan 19, 2023
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