At the turn of the century, it sounded as if string theory could give us big answers about the universe. Well… has it?
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Agatha Christie’s Within a Wall contrasts a well-made portrait of a beautiful woman with the more expressive imperfect sketch of another, revealing more of her soul than her skin and drape.
In 1980, Stephen Hawking gave his first lecture as Lucasian Professor at the University of Cambridge. The lecture was called ...
Stefan Beckman unpacks the tools of his trade, including a staple gun, a 1970s-style tape dispenser and a Pantone-esque color ...
Professor Raúl Rojas has published a book about how symbols have been used throughout history in mathematics. The work was translated into English this year.
Topology has real implications in the world. For example, topological techniques can be brought to bear on calculating the trajectories of spacecraft, and missions have been saved by the efforts of ...
This paper is concerned with the long-time behavior of solutions for a class of stochastic semilinear degenerate equations with memory driven by nonlinear noise on ℝ n ...
Marijn Heule turns mathematical statements into something like Sudoku puzzles, then has computers go to work on them. His ...
Mathematician Grigori Perelman solved the Poincaré conjecture, and then rejected the $1 million prize that came with it.
Abstract: This paper investigates set-valued state estimation of nonlinear systems with unknown-but-bounded (UBB) noises based on constrained polynomial zonotopes which is utilized to characterize non ...