Artificial intelligence has attained an impressive series of feats—solving problems from the International Math Olympiad, ...

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A mathematical trick speeds up seismic calculations for earthquake simulations and could revolutionize earthquake preparedness.

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Simulation games aren't just the realm of thousand-dollar joystick setups and force feedback racing chairs; they can encompass anything, really, from cleaning stubborn dirt to designing the most ...

Mathematics provides tools for explanation and analysis in the physical, engineering, business and social sciences. These tools can help in areas as diverse as planning and evaluating market research, ...

The idea that reality—the universe, our world, and everything we perceive—is a simulation has fascinated philosophers and scientists for millennia, but new findings suggest that the theory, despite ...

Variational quantum algorithms (VQAs) face scalability challenges, notably barren plateaus, where the loss landscape flattens with increasing system size. Here, the authors explore an analog VQA ...

AI systems could identify math anxiety from student inputs and change feedback Math anxiety is a significant challenge for students worldwide. While personalized support is widely recognized as the ...