Slashdot Items Tagged "math"

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Friday April 19, 2024 @04:17PM A Chess Formula Is Taking Over the World
Friday April 12, 2024 @11:45PM 73-Year-Old Clifford Stoll Is Now Selling Klein Bottles
Thursday March 28, 2024 @10:55AM Pythagoras Was Wrong: There Are No Universal Musical Harmonies, Study Finds
Saturday March 16, 2024 @07:57PM Pi Calculated to 105 Trillion Digits. (Stored on 1 Petabyte of SSDs)
Friday February 16, 2024 @05:34PM Algebra To Return To San Francisco Middle Schools This Fall
Friday February 02, 2024 @10:20PM Mathematicians Finally Solved Feynman's 'Reverse Sprinkler' Problem
Friday January 19, 2024 @07:37AM How Much of the World Is It Possible to Model?
Wednesday January 17, 2024 @05:43PM Google DeepMind's New AI System Can Solve Complex Geometry Problems
Wednesday January 03, 2024 @07:05PM There's a Big Difference In How Your Brain Processes the Numbers 4 and 5
Saturday December 23, 2023 @01:16AM 30 Years of Donald Knuth's 'Christmas Lectures' Are Online - Including 2023's
Saturday December 23, 2023 @12:50AM World Modelling and 'The Personal, Political Art of Board-Game Design'
Thursday December 14, 2023 @03:33PM Google DeepMind Uses LLM To Solve Unsolvable Math Problem
Tuesday December 05, 2023 @05:37PM US Students' Math Scores Plunge In Global Education Assessment
Tuesday October 31, 2023 @08:52PM A World Record In Race Walking Is Erased After the Course Was Measured Wrong
Friday October 13, 2023 @06:33PM Mathematician Warns US Spies May Be Weakening Next-Gen Encryption
Thursday September 14, 2023 @06:07PM For the First Time, Research Reveals Crows Use Statistical Logic
Friday September 01, 2023 @07:07PM CalTech To Accept Khan Academy Success As Option For Admission
Wednesday August 09, 2023 @11:05AM ChatGPT Is Getting Dumber at Basic Math
Sunday June 25, 2023 @04:02PM Here's How We Could Begin Decoding an Alien Message Using Math
Wednesday June 21, 2023 @04:52PM US Reading and Math Scores Drop To Lowest Level In Decades
Thursday April 20, 2023 @08:10PM Scientists Finally Solved the Mystery of How the Mayan Calendar Works
Tuesday April 11, 2023 @06:30PM NYT Debuts Digits, the Math Version of Wordle
Tuesday April 04, 2023 @02:31PM Mathematicians Invent New 'Einstein' Shape
Friday March 24, 2023 @08:40PM A Geometric Shape That Does Not Repeat Itself When Tiled
Wednesday January 04, 2023 @07:23PM UK PM Rishi Sunak To Propose Compulsory Math To Students Up To 18
Tuesday January 03, 2023 @09:02AM Math Tutor NY - Customized, Private and One-on-One Sessions
Friday December 30, 2022 @08:11AM Thinkwell Login @ Homeschool, Math & All Useful Info
Friday December 30, 2022 @07:32AM Get Ready For Math Kangaroo
Tuesday December 27, 2022 @02:53AM Math Homework Help Online In UK
Tuesday December 27, 2022 @02:10AM Best Primary School for Math &Science Tuition
Saturday December 24, 2022 @10:42PM Donald Knuth's 2022 'Christmas Tree' Lecture Is About Trees
Tuesday December 20, 2022 @12:29PM Math Assignment Help
Tuesday December 13, 2022 @01:58PM Can Abacus Math help in cracking Math Olympiads?
Saturday December 03, 2022 @02:14AM Computer Program For Particle Physics At Risk of Obsolescence
Monday November 14, 2022 @01:12PM Hitchhiker's Guide To the Galaxy: New Research Says #42 Really Is Our Number
Saturday November 12, 2022 @08:25PM Should Functional Programming Be the Future of Software Development?
Monday October 31, 2022 @02:06PM Why Mathematicians Study Knots
Sunday October 30, 2022 @06:55PM DeepMind Creates New AI-Powered Math Algorithms
Tuesday October 25, 2022 @06:46AM Math Scores Fell In Nearly Every State, Reading Dipped On National Exam
Saturday October 22, 2022 @06:37PM How a Mathematician-Magician Revealed a Casino Loophole
Thursday October 13, 2022 @06:59PM DeepMind Breaks 50-Year Math Record Using AI; New Record Falls a Week Later
Friday October 07, 2022 @08:11PM 433 People Won the Philippines Lottery. Was it Luck - or Cheating?
Wednesday October 05, 2022 @04:49PM DeepMind's Game-Playing AI Has Beaten a 50-Year-Old Record In Computer Science
Saturday September 24, 2022 @06:50PM Saul Kripke, Philosopher Who Found Truths In Semantics, Dies At 81
Sunday September 11, 2022 @04:00PM Does Computer Programming Really Help Kids Learn Math?
Tuesday August 23, 2022 @04:57PM China Punishes 27 People Over 'Tragically Ugly' Illustrations In Maths Textbook
Thursday August 11, 2022 @05:51PM A New Study Overturns 100-Year-Old Understanding of Color Perception
Thursday August 04, 2022 @11:32AM At Long Last, Mathematical Proof That Black Holes Are Stable
Tuesday July 05, 2022 @03:27PM Fields Medals in Mathematics Won by Four Under Age 40
Wednesday June 08, 2022 @09:28PM Google Cloud Calculates Pi To 100 Trillion Digits
Thursday March 31, 2022 @07:27PM Fish Can Learn Basic Arithmetic
Saturday March 19, 2022 @02:21PM Linux Random Number Generator Sees Major Improvements
Wednesday March 16, 2022 @01:27PM 'To Keep Students in STEM fields, Let's Weed Out the Weed-Out Math Classes'
Monday March 14, 2022 @01:40AM Pi Day 2022 Has Begun
Wednesday March 02, 2022 @03:39PM Mathematicians Protest Russia Hosting Major Conference
Friday February 25, 2022 @04:33PM Children May Instinctively Know How To Do Division Even Before Hitting the Books, Study Finds
Monday February 14, 2022 @07:52PM Harvard Mathematician Proves 150-Year Old Chess Puzzle
Tuesday February 08, 2022 @06:21PM Researchers Use Tiny Magnetic Swirls To Generate True Random Numbers
Saturday January 22, 2022 @03:09PM A Conway 'Game of Life' Conjecture Settled After 29 years
Thursday December 16, 2021 @10:46AM Mathematician Hurls Structure and Disorder Into Century-Old Problem
Saturday December 11, 2021 @07:29PM 'When a Newspaper Publishes an Unsolvable Puzzle'
Monday December 06, 2021 @07:30PM DeepMind Cracks 'Knot' Conjecture That Bedeviled Mathematicians For Decades
Saturday November 27, 2021 @11:52PM Researchers Claim Locally-Testable-Code Breakthrough With Exotic Multi-Dimensional Graph
Tuesday November 23, 2021 @08:01PM California Moves To Recommend Delaying Algebra To 9th Grade Statewide
Wednesday October 27, 2021 @04:24PM The 50-year-old Problem That Eludes Theoretical Computer Science
Friday October 22, 2021 @02:53PM A Math Teacher is Putting Calculus Lessons on Pornhub
Friday October 08, 2021 @03:41PM Mathematicians Prove Melting Ice Stays Smooth
Tuesday September 14, 2021 @06:35PM Simple Mathematical Law Predicts Movement In Cities Around the World
Monday August 23, 2021 @07:02PM Mathematical Model Predicts Best Way To Build Muscle
Tuesday August 17, 2021 @02:42PM Scientists Calculate Pi To 62.8 Trillion Digits
Friday August 13, 2021 @10:06PM Ask Slashdot: Is There a 'Standard' Way of Formatting Numbers?
Tuesday August 10, 2021 @04:26PM Oregon Law Allows Students To Graduate Without Proving They Can Write Or Do Math
Wednesday August 04, 2021 @06:19PM Australian Mathematician Discovers Applied Geometry Engraved On 3,700-Year-Old Tablet
Wednesday August 04, 2021 @01:12PM Australian Mathematician Discovers Applied Geometry Engraved on 3,700-year-old Tablet
Saturday June 26, 2021 @11:51PM French Engineer Claims He's Solved the Zodiac Killer's Final Code
Wednesday June 23, 2021 @03:22PM Mathematicians Welcome Computer-Assisted Proof in 'Grand Unification' Theory
Wednesday June 16, 2021 @07:03PM When Graphs Are a Matter of Life and Death
Thursday April 08, 2021 @05:27PM Adding Is Favored Over Subtracting In Problem Solving
Friday March 26, 2021 @12:27PM The Solution of the Zodiac Killer's 340-Character Cipher
Friday February 26, 2021 @11:59PM Quantum Computer Solves Decades-Old Problem Three Million Times Faster Than a Classical Computer
Wednesday February 10, 2021 @04:56PM Machines Are Inventing New Math We've Never Seen
Friday January 15, 2021 @10:46PM Quixotic Californian Crusade To Officially Recognize the Hellabyte
Friday January 15, 2021 @05:30PM Calculations Show It'll Be Impossible To Control a Super-Intelligent AI
Saturday January 09, 2021 @03:32PM New XPrize Challenge: Predicting Covid-19's Spread and Prescribing Interventions
Friday January 01, 2021 @09:59PM Why Some Rope Knots Hold Better Than Others
Tuesday December 29, 2020 @04:53AM The Lasting Lessons of John Conway's Game of Life
Tuesday December 22, 2020 @05:30PM AI Solves Schrodinger's Equation
Sunday December 13, 2020 @01:53AM Are Fragments of Energy the Fundamental Building Blocks of the Universe?
Saturday December 05, 2020 @09:39PM The Best Way To Win a Horse Race? Mathematicians May Have the Answer
Wednesday December 02, 2020 @09:42PM Physicists Nail Down the 'Magic Number' That Shapes the Universe
Wednesday December 02, 2020 @06:49PM South Africa's Lottery Probed As 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 and 10 Drawn
Saturday November 21, 2020 @02:16AM Assigning Homework Exacerbates Class Divides, Researchers Find
Tuesday November 10, 2020 @03:22PM Computer Scientists Achieve 'Crown Jewel' of Cryptography
Thursday October 29, 2020 @04:53PM Microsoft Overhauls Excel With Live Custom Data Types
Wednesday October 14, 2020 @04:55PM Winning Bid: How Auction Theory Took the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics
Thursday October 08, 2020 @04:14PM Computer Scientists Break Traveling Salesperson Record
Sunday September 27, 2020 @04:15PM Teenager on TiKTok Resurrects an Essential Question: What is Math?
Friday September 25, 2020 @07:59PM 'Why Modeling the Spread of COVID-19 Is So Damn Hard'
Friday September 11, 2020 @03:09PM UK Mathematician Wins Richest Prize in Academia For His Work On Stochastic Analysis
Saturday September 05, 2020 @12:47AM Mathematicians Finally Answer 2,000-Year-Old Question About Dodecahedrons
Saturday August 01, 2020 @03:44PM Could Randomness Theory Hold Key To Internet Security?
Tuesday July 28, 2020 @05:13PM Decimal Point Error Causes Etsy To Massively Overcharge For Shipping Labels
Friday July 24, 2020 @08:50PM Is There a Sorting Algorithm Faster than Quicksort and Timsort?
Monday July 13, 2020 @03:19PM The Math of Social Distancing Is a Lesson in Geometry
Tuesday July 07, 2020 @09:07PM Mathematician Ronald Graham Dies At 84
Wednesday June 10, 2020 @04:35PM The 'Useless' Perspective That Transformed Mathematics
Sunday May 24, 2020 @09:36PM Texas Instruments Makes It Harder to Run Programs on its Calculators
Wednesday May 20, 2020 @04:17PM The Public Do Not Understand Logarithmic Graphs Used To Portray COVID-19
Monday May 18, 2020 @04:10PM Sudoku as Spectator Sport is Unlikely Lockdown Hit
Tuesday April 14, 2020 @05:12PM Stephen Wolfram Presents a Path to The Fundamental Theory of Physics
Monday April 13, 2020 @03:51PM John Conway, Game of Life Author, Dies At 82 of COVID-19
Saturday April 04, 2020 @02:12AM Mathematical Proof of the ABC Conjecture Will Be Published
Sunday March 15, 2020 @12:31AM MIT Celebrates 'Pi Day' With Star Wars-Themed Video
Friday February 28, 2020 @03:19PM Freeman Dyson, Visionary Technologist, Is Dead at 96
Friday February 28, 2020 @03:15PM Freeman Dyson, Visionary Technologist, Is Dead at 96
Wednesday February 19, 2020 @01:07PM Can You Solve the 'Hanging Cable' Problem, Used as an Amazon Interview Question?
Tuesday February 11, 2020 @09:21PM Andrew Yang Drops Out of Presidential Race
Wednesday February 05, 2020 @08:42AM Mathematicians Prove Universal Law of Turbulence
Friday January 24, 2020 @05:13PM EPA Reasoning For Gutting Fuel-Economy Rule Doesn't Hold Up, Senator Finds
Saturday January 18, 2020 @01:54AM Major Breakthrough In Quantum Computing Shows That MIP* = RE
Tuesday January 14, 2020 @04:54PM 'Why the Foundations of Physics Have Not Progressed For 40 Years'
Sunday January 05, 2020 @09:41PM MIT Scientists Made a Shape-Shifting Material that Morphs Into a Human Face
Friday January 03, 2020 @01:12AM A Computer Made From DNA Can Compute the Square Root of 900
Sunday December 29, 2019 @10:26PM Microsoft Wants Schoolchildren Playing Minecraft To Learn Math
Tuesday December 17, 2019 @07:02PM Facebook Has a Neural Network That Can Do Advanced Math
Friday December 13, 2019 @07:36PM Tony Brooker, Pioneer of Computer Programming, Dies At 94
Friday December 13, 2019 @11:25AM Mathematician Proves Huge Result on 'Dangerous' Problem
Thursday November 28, 2019 @02:00PM Mathematicians Catch a Pattern By Figuring Out How To Avoid It
Tuesday November 26, 2019 @11:01AM How Texas Instruments Monopolized Math Class
Thursday November 21, 2019 @08:30PM Finland Has an App Showing Shopping's True Carbon Footprint
Saturday November 16, 2019 @08:06AM US Workers Show Little Improvement In 21st Century Skills
Saturday November 09, 2019 @02:55PM AI Cracks Centuries-Old 'Three Body Problem' In Under a Second
Sunday October 20, 2019 @12:04PM Mathematician Solves 48-Year-Old Problem, Finds New Way To Multiply
Saturday October 12, 2019 @01:03PM Should High School Computer Science Classes Count as a Math Credit?
Thursday October 10, 2019 @05:35PM Da Vinci Bridge Design Holds Up Even After 500 Years, MIT Proves
Thursday September 26, 2019 @06:03PM Number Theorist Fears All Published Math Is Wrong
Wednesday September 11, 2019 @05:39PM Two Mathematicians Solve Old Math Riddle, Possibly the Meaning of Life
Tuesday August 13, 2019 @10:56AM How One City Saved $5 Million by Routing School Buses with an Algorithm
Friday August 09, 2019 @06:54PM Dark Matter May Predate the Big Bang, New Math Suggests
Saturday July 27, 2019 @01:00PM Decades-Old Computer Science 'Boolean Sensitivity' Conjecture Solved in Two Pages
Monday July 08, 2019 @06:14PM Physicist Solves 2,000-Year-Old Optical Problem
Sunday June 23, 2019 @02:50PM Remembering The ENIAC Programmers
Monday June 17, 2019 @03:58PM A 53-Year-Old Network Coloring Conjecture Is Disproved
Monday June 17, 2019 @03:21PM The League of Entropy Forms To Offer Acts of Public Randomness
Wednesday June 05, 2019 @06:09PM Bees Can Link Symbols To Numbers, Study Finds
Wednesday June 05, 2019 @02:29AM Researchers Solve Mystery of the Galaxy With No Dark Matter
Tuesday June 04, 2019 @07:07PM The Geometry of An Electron Determined For the First Time
Sunday May 26, 2019 @05:47PM How a Professor Beat Roulette, Crediting a Non-Existent Supercomputer
Thursday April 25, 2019 @05:49PM Measurements Confirm Universe Is Expanding Faster Than Expected
Tuesday April 16, 2019 @04:37PM LeBron James' STEM-Based School Is Showing Promise
Wednesday April 10, 2019 @05:59PM Old-School Slashdotter Discovers and Solves Longstanding Flaw In Basic Calculus
Friday March 22, 2019 @06:48PM Windows 10 Calculator Will Soon Be Able To Graph Math Equations
Thursday March 21, 2019 @01:21AM Is Statistical Significance Significant?
Thursday March 14, 2019 @04:46PM Kids Have 'Math Anxiety' Thanks To Parents and Teachers, Report Finds
Thursday March 14, 2019 @03:47PM Musician Creates a Million-Hour Song Based On the Number Pi
Thursday March 14, 2019 @10:06AM Google Smashes the World Record For Calculating Digits of Pi
Monday March 11, 2019 @12:46PM CSS To Get Support For Trigonometry Functions
Friday March 08, 2019 @03:55PM Ajit Pai's Rosy Broadband Deployment Claim May Be Based On Gigantic Error
Wednesday February 13, 2019 @08:41PM Your GPS Devices May Stop Working On April 6 If You Don't Or Can't Update Firmware
Tuesday February 12, 2019 @02:16PM In China, Some Teachers Are Using AI To Grade Homework
Thursday February 07, 2019 @03:10AM Bees Can Solve Math Problems With Addition and Subtraction
Saturday January 12, 2019 @03:21PM Legendary Mathematician Sir Michael Atiyah Dies at Age 89
Wednesday January 02, 2019 @05:43PM Oregon Unconstitutionally Fined a Man $500 for Saying 'I am an Engineer,' Federal Judge Rules
Sunday December 23, 2018 @12:13PM 51st Known Mersenne Prime Number Found
Friday December 21, 2018 @07:53PM An Amoeba-Based Computer Found Solutions To 8-City Traveling Salesman Problem
Sunday November 11, 2018 @04:01PM How Nature Defies Math in Keeping Ecosystems Stable
Tuesday November 06, 2018 @07:14AM Mystery Math Whiz and Novelist Advance Permutation Problem
Friday October 19, 2018 @12:10PM Quantum Computers Will Break the Encryption that Protects the Internet
Sunday October 14, 2018 @11:40AM Struggle With Statistics? Your 'Fixed Mindset' Might Be To Blame
Monday October 08, 2018 @08:42PM Economics Nobel Laureate Paul Romer Is a Python Programming Convert
Wednesday September 26, 2018 @05:37AM Study of 1.6 Million Grades Shows Little Gender Difference in Math and Science at School
Sunday September 23, 2018 @03:04PM Famed Mathematician Claims Proof of 160-Year-Old Riemann Hypothesis
Thursday September 20, 2018 @04:07PM Titans of Mathematics Clash Over Epic Proof of ABC Conjecture
Wednesday September 12, 2018 @11:57PM China Now the Most Prolific Contributor To Physical Sciences, Engineering, and Math
Monday September 03, 2018 @09:58PM This is the Story of the 1970s Great Calculator Race
Thursday August 30, 2018 @06:14PM Physicists Measure Gravity With Record Precision
Saturday August 25, 2018 @11:08PM Sportsbooks Start Refusing More Bets From 'Wise Guys' Trying To Win
Friday August 17, 2018 @08:50PM Science Confirms That Women's Pockets Suck For Smartphones
Tuesday August 14, 2018 @02:39PM Mathematicians Solve Age-Old Spaghetti Mystery
Saturday August 04, 2018 @01:22PM Fields Medals Awarded To 4 Mathematicians
Thursday August 02, 2018 @04:43PM Tesla Is Building Its Own AI Chips For Self-Driving Cars
Friday July 27, 2018 @12:50PM The Peculiar Math That Could Underlie the Laws of Nature
Friday July 20, 2018 @06:43PM Can Nike's $250 Running Shoes Make You Run Faster? NYT Analysis Says Yes
Thursday June 21, 2018 @04:54PM Stonehenge Builders Used Pythagoras' Theorem 2,000 Years Before He Was Born
Monday June 11, 2018 @08:42PM Honeybees Seem To Understand the Notion of Zero, Study Finds
Monday June 11, 2018 @03:54PM Canada's 'Random' Immigration Lottery Uses Microsoft Excel, Which Isn't Actually Random
Wednesday May 09, 2018 @04:58PM Jay-Z's Tidal Accused of Faking Kanye West, Beyonce Streaming Numbers
Friday May 04, 2018 @01:50PM 60-Year-Old Maths Problem Partly Solved By Amateur
Wednesday May 02, 2018 @05:42PM The Longest Straight Path You Could Travel On Water Without Hitting Land
Saturday April 07, 2018 @02:58PM Did Harvard Scientists Predict The End of the Universe?
Thursday March 29, 2018 @10:07PM Scientists Explain the Sound of Knuckle Cracking
Tuesday March 06, 2018 @04:00PM Researcher Admits Study That Claimed Uber Drivers Earn $3.37 An Hour Was Not Correct
Monday February 26, 2018 @04:55PM Math Shows Some Black Holes Erase Your Past and Give You Unlimited Futures
Thursday February 01, 2018 @04:48PM This Chinese Math Problem Has No Answer. Perhaps, It Has a Lot of Them.
Saturday January 20, 2018 @09:57PM Has the Decades-Old Floating Point Error Problem Been Solved?
Thursday January 04, 2018 @05:09PM Largest Prime Number Discovered – With More Than 23m Digits
Saturday December 30, 2017 @01:12AM Math Says You're Driving Wrong and It's Slowing Us All Down
Thursday December 28, 2017 @04:23PM How Pirates Of The Caribbean Hijacked America's Metric System
Sunday December 24, 2017 @07:15PM CMU Researchers Reveal How Their AI Beat The World's Top Poker Players
Thursday December 14, 2017 @06:48PM Astronomers Have Come Up With a Better Way To Weigh Millions of Solitary Stars