At the turn of the century, it sounded as if string theory could give us big answers about the universe. Well… has it?
DeepMind’s AlphaEvolve helps solve a math puzzle with Terence Tao, showing how AI can now invent new ideas—and prove old ones ...
Quantum computing may prove to be an existential threat to Bitcoin, but human panic and slow preparation are bigger ...
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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.
The standard interpretation of a null state, or empty state, posits it as devoid of structure. This paper introduces a ...
Teacher education often receives criticism for being too theoretical. Many students lack more training in how to teach in practice when they enter schools. They now receive this at the University of ...
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 ...