With a record-setting $1.9 billion jackpot, you’d think it’s a no-brainer to buy a Powerball ticket. But the math truly shows otherwise.
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They’re not just watching you; they’re also calculating.
Does it have a deeper significance — or is it just a number?
Holograms preserve all of an object’s 3D information, but on a 2D surface. Could the holographic Universe idea lead us to higher dimensions?
Ethan Mollick, associate professor at the Wharton School, explains why we have to crack the machine-buddy problem.
First derived by Emmy Noether, for every symmetry a theory possesses, there’s an associated conserved quantity. Here’s the profound link.
ATD 2024 challenged us to make moments of recovery part of our daily practice. Here’s how each keynote speaker advised finding that balance.
Ada Lovelace’s skills with language, music, and needlepoint all contributed to her pioneering work in computing.
It’s spooky, and it’s happening all around us. And inside us.
Are breakthroughs really a matter of chance, or are they simply waiting to be uncovered by the right person at the right time?
The use of the letter x as an unknown is a relatively modern convention.
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While ice itself is slick, slippery, and difficult to navigate across under most circumstances, skaters easily glide across the ice.
A human hand has the power to split wooden planks and demolish concrete blocks. A trio of physicists investigated why this feat doesn’t shatter our bones.
Probability, lacking solid theoretical foundations and burdened with paradoxes, was jokingly called the “theory of misfortune.”
Intellectual humility demands that we examine our motivations for holding certain beliefs.
The solution involves the infamous Navier-Stokes equations, which are so difficult, there is a $1-million prize for solving them.
Those that were the best at math didn’t even show income satiation — there was no upper limit to how much money could make them happy.
Parity tasks (such as odd and even categorisation) are considered abstract and high-level numerical concepts in humans.
The authors call it “wildly theoretical” — but let’s take a look, anyway.
The smartest person in the world was Isaac Newton, a true polymath whose brilliance never has been, nor ever will be, surpassed.
It’s simpler, more compact, and reusable from year-to-year in a way that no other calendar is. Here’s both how it works and how to use it.
Math offers good evidence that humans can solve any problem — as long as there’s money in it.
If you can model anything in the Universe with an equation, mathematics is how you get the solution(s). Physics must go a step further.
A researcher explains a little-known niche within modern physics: animal collective behavior.
The game of Plinko perfectly illustrates chaos theory. Even with indistinguishable initial conditions, the outcome is always uncertain.
Michio Kaku believes math is the mind of God.
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Can quantum computers do things that standard, classical computers can’t? No. But if they can calculate faster, that’s quantum supremacy.