Research on the perception of color differences is helping resolve a century-old understanding of color developed by Erwin Schrödinger. Los Alamos scientist Roxana Bujack led a team that used geometry ...

As we begin a new semester following a hopefully restful winter break, I have been thinking about the various concepts of stability, a term often used in mathematics and invoked to describe many ...

For many of us, mathematics was not a subject to love—it was a subject to pass so we could progress to the next academic stage. Through years of conversations with executives, educators, parents, and ...

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The simulation hypothesis — the idea that our universe might be an artificial construct running on some advanced alien computer — has long captured the public imagination. Yet most arguments about it ...

Algorithms are pre-defined, self-contained sets of instructions designed to execute diverse functions, and they have been around for longer than you might expect. From ancient Babylon to the present ...

How do you define wealth? Perhaps you consider wealth as having a certain amount of cash in savings, or investments that have reached a particular value. What it means to be wealthy can differ wildly, ...

I consider myself a computer science (CS) theoretician, but Wikipedia describes me as a “mathematician and computer scientist.” a So, what am I? To answer that question, we must consider theoretical ...