A $1 million prize awaits anyone who can show where the math of fluid flow breaks down. With specially trained AI systems, ...

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Math anxiety isn’t just “hating math.” It is a physiological response. When faced with a difficult equation, your brain’s ...

More than a century after Srinivasa Ramanujan scribbled his astonishing formulas for π in notebooks in India and England, ...

Welcome to the 21st edition of the Sidney Awards. Every year, I give out extremely nonlucrative prizes, in honor of ...

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Abstract: Two-echelon distribution networks significantly enhance the delivery speed and reduce the distribution cost. Recent years have seen a growing trend in applying the reinforcement learning ...

Abstract: An important feature of sequential decision-making under uncertain conditions is to strike a balance between exploration (obtaining information about the value of actions) and utilization ...

A game called MATH FPS: Solve Or Die, which requires you to solve math problems while shooting enemies, is now in Early Access. For some, the sheer thought of “math” might make them break out in cold ...

Chalkbeat Ideas is a new section featuring reported columns on the big ideas and debates shaping American schools. Sign up for the Ideas newsletter to follow our work. An obscure university report has ...