Mathematics

March Madness: Can Basketball Experts Outperform A Coin Flip?

team nicknames he liked best takes home the pot. Knowledge of the game makes any difference at all in ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 10 2015 - 4:24pm

What's Your Risk In The Pamplona Bull Run? The Math

needing all the ambulances is very small, about one in 10,000, as long as there are no extraordinary ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 6 2016 - 2:21pm

Mythical Third Degree Transcendental L-Function Spotted At AIM Meeting

to chart all L-functions; this project has been recommended for funding by the National Science ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 14 2008 - 12:28am

Holiday Math: A Simple Equation Decides How Much To Spend On Any Gift

set ups. No, no: no need to thank me in the comments section. Instead, for all the people on your list ...

Article - Garth Sundem - Dec 21 2010 - 10:59am

A Skeleton Key For Network Complexity

were able to produce a skeleton for each network consisting of all those links that every node ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 3 2012 - 12:00pm

Math Puzzle Column On Science 2.0

Challenges.------------------- Update: Red Man does in fact not quite agree, because that all circles touch the base of the ...

Article - Sascha Vongehr - Sep 19 2013 - 6:49am

Solution to The Jailer's Revenge

algorithm leads to a number of cycles. The one with the 6 in it is (10,5,1,6) and has a period of 4. All ...

Blog Post - Richard Mankiewicz - Apr 8 2013 - 11:30am

Why There Are Fewer Female Economists

Rather the data show that girls are far less likely to apply to study economics at all.  "Girls are ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 28 2014 - 10:32am

Virtual Meat: "Embedded" Emissions In Livestock Go Beyond CO2

Texas ranchers all start getting bills from the EPA for their virtual emissions and are told they have ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 14 2014 - 10:03am

On Mathematical Models

propaganda. Not surprisingly, then, virtually all of the predictions made by the IPCC’s GCMs have so far ...

Blog Post - Frank Schnell - Feb 2 2016 - 7:51am