Browsing: Mathematics

How humans invented zero—and why some tried desperately to do without it.

Next thing you know, they’ll be reciting multiplication tables

Probability solves a great question of time travel. Well, probably.

Nerdfeast!

New ways to keep time, count bees, and spot energy leaks in your home

Along with predicting our future behaviors, brain scans can guess when we’re about to make a cognitive error, mis-processing a…

The Fourier transformation is arguably the most important algorithm in information technology, with immense applications as well  in optics, signal and image processing, pattern recognition etc. Thanks to this remarkable mathematical operation, we’re able to see videos or listen to music on an iPod, as it turns the digital information into readable frequencies. Recently, MIT […]

One of my favorite past times is filling sudoku puzzles. There’s something about this seemingly simple, yet challenging, dance of digits up and down, left and right that manages to keep me highly entertain though a perfectly balanced mixture of thrill and frustration. If you think you’re good enough to solve any kind of sudoku, […]

Rendering complex objects realistically requires a whole new kind of geometry

Currently, only about 30% percent of the total scientific workforce is comprised of female scientists. Thousands of years of cultural discrepancies might be to blame for this, like stereotyping, however in societies where math gender gaps disappears, the gender gap remains in higher education. In Sweden or Norway, the math gender gap has been bridged, […]