In 1966, a mathematician named [Leo Moser] proposed what sounds like a simple problem: What’s the largest shape you can move ...

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Students from Southwest Dubois County School Corporation recently demonstrated exceptional problem-solving skills in the Noetic Learning Math Contest (NLMC) — a national mathematics competition that ...

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Sophie Germain was a brilliant, self-taught mathematician who won one of France's most prestigious prizes, yet she declined ...

Professors Svetlana Mojsov and Carlos Kenig, among other eminent figures, were selected to win the 48th session of the prize.

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Nandita Giri is a senior software engineer with experience at Amazon, Meta, and Microsoft. She recommends job seekers spend ...

Tessellations aren’t just eye-catching patterns—they can be used to crack complex mathematical problems. By repeatedly ...

Sandia National Labs today released an update on its neuromorphic computing research, reporting that these systems, inspired ...

The Nesin Mathematics Village in western Turkey was dreamed up by award-winning mathematician Ali Nesin to engage his ...

Randall Morck of the Alberta School of Business says economists too often regard people as "dynamic, stochastic optimization ...