Mathematicians Roll the Dice and Get Rock-Paper-Scissors
Researchers have uncovered a surprising wealth of “intransitive” patterns in randomly chosen dice. ..
Researchers have uncovered a surprising wealth of “intransitive” patterns in randomly chosen dice. ..
Mathematicians predicted that if they imposed enough restrictions on how a shape might tile space, they could force a periodic pattern to emerge. They ..
In his senior year of high school, Daniel Larsen proved a key theorem about Carmichael numbers—strange entities that mimic the primes. ..
Maintenance of FORM, the 1980s software that’s used for the field's hardest calculations, rests almost entirely with one septuagenarian physicist. ..
For more than 250 years, mathematicians have wondered if the Euler equations might sometimes fail to describe a fluid’s flow. Now there’s a breakthrough. ..
To sharpen its command over precise maneuvers, the brain uses comparisons between control signals—not the signals themselves. ..
Field research uncovers clues about the beetles’ coordinated blinking and confirms that a novel form of “chimeric” synchrony occurs naturally. ..
Recent explorations of unique geometric worlds reveal perplexing patterns, including the Fibonacci sequence and the golden ratio. ..
The solutions to Einstein’s equations that describe a spinning black hole won’t blow up, even when poked or prodded. ..
A hidden link between two seemingly unrelated particle collision outcomes shows a mysterious web of mathematical connections between disparate theories. ..