Tag: Mathematics
Remembering Bill Tutte: another brilliant codebreaker from World War II
One of the greatest mathematicians and codebreakers of the 20th century, William (Bill) Tutte, was born a century ago this Sunday, May...
The extraordinary return of sea otters to Glacier Bay
Perry Williams, Colorado State University and Mevin Hooten, Colorado State University
Human beings have a long history of persecuting apex predators such as...
Disrupting pro-ISIS online ‘ecosystems’ could help thwart real-world terrorism
Neil Johnson, University of Miami
Supporters of the Islamic State, or ISIS, around the world gather online, becoming members of virtual communities in much the...
Are the high-rolling quants of horse racing our friends or foes?
Alexander Munk, University of Michigan and Erhan Bayraktar, University of Michigan
From Wall Street to politics, quantitative analysts (or quants) are revolutionizing much of the...
Pi Day is silly, but π itself is fascinating and universal
By Daniel Ullman, George Washington University
Math students everywhere will be eating pies in class this week in celebration of what is known as Pi...
Life boils down to five ‘rules’ … or so says the...
By James Smith
It may sound overly simple, but just five processes can define us as animals: eating, metabolism, reproduction, dispersal and death.
They might not...
EXPLORING NATURE
Trump’s EPA decides climate change doesn’t endanger public health – the...
Jonathan Levy, Boston University; Howard Frumkin, University of Washington; Jonathan Patz, University of Wisconsin-Madison, and Vijay Limaye, University of Wisconsin-Madison
