Mathematics

The Game Of The Three Spin Wheels

The late Martin Gardner held for many years a fantastic feature in the popular Scientific American magazine. It was called "Mathematical Games", and it was worth the whole magazine by itself, although SciAm always featured many interesting articl ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Mar 24 2022 - 9:28am

Quantum Darwinism Isn't Exclusively Probabilistic, According To Generalized Probabilistic Theory Paper

At the very large and very small scale, Newtonian gravity does not work the way it should. The universe should not be expanding and forget trying to explain quantum mechanics. Trying to detail why electrons can behave as both particles and waves, depending ...

Article - News Staff - May 4 2022 - 9:41am

Weekend Science: Why You Should Always Order A Large Pizza

I understand why someone living in the city might get a slice of pizza- they don't want to carry a box of pizza back to the office, and there is something nice about sitting down and having a quick bite. But I have never understood why anyone buys a m ...

Blog Post - Hank Campbell - Feb 28 2024 - 11:00am

Solutions of Second-order Equations by ‘Determinant’

In optimization problems, we often encounter second-order equations in which we need to solve for unknowns in order to determine suitable values that are economical for designs as in engineering, and in business and economics for profit maximization. In th ...

Blog Post - Daisi Komolafe - Apr 2 2024 - 1:59pm