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How to win at poker? Today's players turn to math theory
Bluffing still matters, but the best players now depend on math theory.
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Surviving a Zombie Apocalypse with Math
A mathematical equation reveals there is just one way to stop a zombie apocalypse, and that is with human intervention. Apparently, humans can't coexist with the walking dead, says a mathematician.
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The maths that saw the US shutdown coming
For Peter Turchin, a mathematical ecologist at the University of Connecticut in Storrs, the stand-off was predictable. He is one of a small group of people applying the mathematics of complex systems to political instability. They have been anticipating events just like this – and they say that if we don't find some way to respond to the warning signs and change course, things are bound to get a lot worse before they get better.
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Why Guessing Your Romantic Partner Is So Important to Facebook
This week, with a paper published on the online academic research site ArXiv.org, Backstrom revealed one of the recent fruits of his labor: an experimental algorithm that analyzes your personal network of friends, seeking to identify your strongest relationships. Developed alongside his former Cornell thesis adviser, Jon Kleinberg, the algorithm is strong enough to independently identity your spouse or romantic partner and even predict when you’re headed for a breakup.
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How I faced my fears and learned to be good at math
You might think the principal coder behind PolitiFact took naturally to math. You'd be wrong.
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Science confirms: Politics wrecks your ability to do math
Everybody knows that our political views can sometimes get in the way of thinking clearly. But perhaps we don’t realize how bad the problem actually is. According to a new psychology paper, our political passions can even undermine our very basic reasoning skills.
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Shanghai teens top international education ranking, OECD says
When it comes to mathematics, reading and science, young people in Shanghai are the best in the world, according to a global education survey released Tuesday.
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Simple Fractals
Really simple fractals implemented in JS.
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Rolling – Futility Closet
Interesting geometric result
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Math Gems
An assortment of mathematical marvels.
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$3 Million Prizes Will Go to Mathematicians, Too
Yuri Milner, the Russian entrepreneur, philanthropist and self-described “failed physicist” who made a splash two years ago when he began handing out lavish cash awards to scientists, is expanding the universe of his largess again: He and Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook announced Thursday night that they would begin handing out $3 million awards to mathematicians.
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Polynesian people used binary numbers 600 years ago
Base-2 system helped to simplify calculations centuries before Europeans rediscovered it.
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Famous Math Professor Says Zuckerberg's $3 Million Math Prize Is NOT A Good Idea
On Friday, billionaires Mark Zuckerberg and Yuri Milner announced a new $3 million prize for mathematics known as the Breakthrough Prize in Mathematics. This is the third such prize that the Valley's elite have created.
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Simple, quick, and interesting math
You'll get the same number no matter what you start with.
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One number unites anything that flies or swims
There are similarities in the way a bird flies through the air and a dolphin swims through the water. And yet how do you compare the flap of a butterfly to the enormous movement of a blue whale? The best way, it turns out, is with their respective Strouhal Numbers.
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A Most Profound Math Problem
To postulate that P ≠ NP is to allow for a world of mystery, difficulty, and frustration—but also of discovery and inquiry
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Beautiful, Alien-Looking ‘Fabergé Fractals’
Web developer Tom Beddard has created a gorgeous series of fractals using his WebGL-based fractal engine, Fractal Lab. Titled ‘Fabergé Fractals’, Beddard’s work looks like a beautiful, mesmerizing cross between Fabergé Eggs and alien technology.
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Is the Universe Made of Math?
In this excerpt from his new book, Our Mathematical Universe, M.I.T. professor Max Tegmark explores the possibility that math does not just describe the universe, but makes the universe
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Am I Going To Die This Year? A Mathematical Puzzle
A few years ago, physicist Brian Skinner asked himself: What are the odds I will die in the next year? He was 25. What got him wondering about this, I have no idea, but, hey, it's something everybody asks. When I can't wedge my dental floss between my two front teeth, I ask it, too. So Brian looked up the answer — there are tables for this kind of thing — and what he discovered is interesting. Very interesting. Even mysterious.
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Pi is Beautiful - Numberphile
Math and art may appear like two disparate fields, but they’ve been in conversation for millennia. One recent example of the synergistic possibilities between the two comes from Canadian scientists Christian Ilies Vasile and Martin Kryzwinski. The pair have utilized the data visualization software Circos to create beautiful and colorful visual representations of mathematical constants π (pi), φ (phi), and eusing transition probabilities and color-coded digits on Archimedean spirals.
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