A maths lecturer has retained her title as the UK's highest rated female Scrabble player. Natalie Zolty, from Solihull, won the top division of the Final Fling tournament, during the UK Open ...

Plantlike designs on pottery made almost 8,000 years ago may be the earliest evidence yet of mathematical thinking. Many of the flower decorations painted on pottery by an ancient culture in northern ...

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 ...

In a world run by computers, there is one algorithm that stands above all the rest. It powers search engines, encrypts your data, guides rockets, runs simulations, and makes the modern digital ...

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The Recursive Division Tree (RDT) algorithm is a mathematical process for measuring the logarithmic height of positive integers. For any integer ( n \ge 2 ), it recursively divides by logarithm-based ...

Abstract: Tropical geometry has recently found several applications in the analysis of neural networks with piecewise linear activation functions. This article presents a new look at the problem of ...

As one of the cutting-edge research areas in modern physics, space-based gravitational wave detection aims at capturing gravitational wave signals in the mHz frequency band. A key technological ...

You’re at the checkout screen after an online shopping spree, ready to enter your credit card number. You type it in and instantly see a red error message ...

A new report by Capgemini warns that quantum computing may break the widely used public-key cryptographic systems within the next decade — threatening everything from online banking to blockchain ...

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