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Dr. Abdalla Mansur has spent his life exploring the patterns that shape the universe. From the motion of planets to the way ...

Peter Badge / Typos1 / The Abel Prize. This year, the Abel Prize — the field’s highest honor — has been awarded to Masaki ...

Estimating a range can help you cut through fuzzy overthinking. Frame any problem with a best-case and worst-case scenario.

The Staff of the SEC's Division of Corporation Finance issued a statement clarifying that mining crypto assets on proof-of-work networks does ...

Britta Späth has dedicated her career to proving a single, central conjecture. She’s finally succeeded, alongside her partner ...

An illustration from a new research paper published by D-Wave introducing a novel blockchain architecture that leverages the ...

Mathematician Adam Kucharski on the trust policymakers place in logic and why algorithms are not always the answer ...

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Quantum systems hold the promise of tackling some complex problems faster and more efficiently than classical computers.

For example, investors may place bids for securities ... the price a seller is willing to accept on the trade. The mathematical difference between the bid and the ask is the spread.

Harvard scientist Dr. Willie Soon introduces a bold hypothesis that a mathematical formula could prove the existence of God. Drawing upon the fine-tuning argument, he suggests that the universe's ...