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Mathematics and computing
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The mathematician who helps Olympic swimmers go faster
Kate Douglass of Team USA is one of the athletes Ken Ono has worked with.Credit: Reuters/Marko Djurica The…
Can mathematicians help to solve social-justice problems?
Detroit community members have raised concerns about gunshot-tracking technology, ShotSpotter. Mathematics are being used to study the effectiveness…
Why mathematics is set to be revolutionized by AI
Giving birth to a conjecture — a proposition that is suspected to be true, but needs definitive proof…
Randomness in computation wins computer-science ‘Nobel’
Avi Wigderson received the Turing Award for his foundational contributions to the theory of computation.Credit: Dan Komoda A…
Climate change has slowed Earth’s rotation — and could affect how we keep time
Climate change is starting to alter how humans keep time. An analysis1 published in Nature on 27 March…
Mathematician who tamed randomness wins Abel Prize
Michel Talagrand studies stochastic processes, mathematical models of phenomena that are governed by randomness.Credit: Peter Bagde/Typos1/Abel Prize 2024…
Persistent interaction patterns across social media platforms and over time
Data collection In our study, data collection from various social media platforms was strategically designed to encompass various…
A Black mathematical history
Journeys of Black Mathematicians: Forging Resilience Zala Films Directed by George Csicsery What does a mathematician look like?…
The decimal point is 150 years older than historians thought
Astronomer Giovanni Bianchini presenting Emperor Frederick III with his book Tabulae Astrologiae.Credit: Heritage Image Partnership Ltd/Alamy The decimal…
Just 5 women have won a top maths prize in the past 90 years
Maryam Mirzakhani, who died in 2017, was the first woman to win a Fields Medal.Credit: Lee Young-ho/Sipa USA…