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Study breaks down science of sports betting

It’s a dilemma that many a regular bettor probably faces often—deciding when to place a sports ...
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How Maths Can Help You Pack Your Shopping More Efficiently

How can you ensure you use the fewest bags when loading your shopping? A dash of maths will help, sa ...
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What game theory can teach us about standing up to ...

In a time of income inequality and ruthless politics, people with outsized power or an unrelenting w ...
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Ninth Dedekind number discovered: Scientists solve long-known problem in mathematics

Making history with 42 digits, scientists at Paderborn University and KU Leuven have unlocked a deca ...
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Bridging traditional economics and econophysics

In a new study, researchers of the Complexity Science Hub highlight the connecting elements between ...
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How to make better decisions—using scoring systems

When faced with difficult choices, we often rank the alternatives to see how they stack up. This app ...
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Sharpening Occam’s Razor: A new perspective on structure and complexity

In science, the explanation with the fewest assumptions is most likely to be true. Called “Occ ...
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Has a mathematician solved the ‘invariant subspace problem’? And what ...

Two weeks ago, a modest-looking paper was uploaded to the arXiv preprint server with the unassuming ...
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Decade-Long Struggle Over Maths Proof Could Be Decided By $1m ...

Mathematician Shinichi Mochizuki’s Inter-universal Teichmüller theory has attracted controvers ...
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UK hobbyist stuns math world with ‘amazing’ new shapes

David Smith, a retired print technician from the north of England, was pursuing his hobby of looking ...
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Exploring how community-based social norms evolve

Cooperation is a guiding principle of everyday life. It’s as simple as following the rules of ...
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Global symmetry found to be not completely necessary for the ...

An international team led by researchers at Nankai University in China and at University of Zagreb i ...
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Researchers develop online hate speech ‘shockwave’ formula

A George Washington University research team has created a novel formula that demonstrates how, why, ...
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Butterfly chaos effect’ discovered in swarms and herds of animals

Researchers at the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (UC3M) and the Universidad Complutense de Madrid ...
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Implications of no-free-lunch theorems

In the 18th century, the philosopher David Hume observed that induction—inferring the future based o ...
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Mathematicians Make Even Better Never-Repeating Tile Discovery

An unsatisfying caveat in a mathematical breakthrough discovery of a single tile shape that can cove ...
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