David Cutler is in the spotlight for his work on a tasty-sounding mathematics problem. In January, the New York Times featured a research paper authored by Cutler and Neil Sloane, the founder of The ...

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Since ancient Greece, researchers have tried to isolate special rational points on curves. Now they have the first ever formula that applies uniformly to all curves ...

PROTECTING THE U.S. ECONOMY AND NATIONAL INTERESTS: Today, President Donald J. Trump signed a Proclamation imposing a temporary import duty to address fundamental international payments problems and ...

(via SciShow) The Standard Model of Particle Physics is the best theory scientists have to explain how the universe works on subatomic scales. But just because it's the "best" doesn't mean there ...

Abstract: Metaheuristic algorithms have demonstrated strong effectiveness in solving complex real-world optimization problems. This paper presents two discrete metaheuristic approaches for the ...

Five years ago, mathematicians Dawei Chen and Quentin Gendron were trying to untangle a difficult area of algebraic geometry involving differentials, elements of calculus used to measure distance ...

EDCOM II, the Second Congressional Commission on Education, last week released its final report called Turning Point: A Decade of Necessary Reform (2026-2035). The 634-page report centers on the ...

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This paper proposes an exact method to solve an integer indefinite quadratic bilevel problem with multiple objectives at the upper level, where the objective functions at both levels are a product of ...

Amateur mathematicians are using artificial intelligence chatbots to solve long-standing problems, in a move that has taken professionals by surprise. While the problems in question aren’t the most ...

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