Mathematics & Data

1+ hour, 48+ min ago   (419+ words) Take the traveling salesman problem, which asks for the shortest route to visit a list of cities and return home. Checking every option creates a mathematical bottleneck that quickly spirals out of control. The traveling salesman problem represents a limit…...

2+ hour, 54+ min ago   (809+ words) Moser’s circle problem can be used to divide a pizza into one, two, four, eight, 16 or 31 slices. It’s a perfect example of how the numbers in a sequence aren’t as clear-cut as they may first appear By Manon Bischoff edited…...

4+ min ago   (1185+ words) The study, published online in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences on July 20, examined how different groups recognised and matched shapes and angles. Researchers compared preschool children in the United States, adults from the Tsimane’ community in Bolivia…...

11+ hour, 54+ min ago   (825+ words) After an OpenAI model presented a possible solution to the Navier-Stokes problem, mathematicians are speculating about which major unsolved question could be resolved next By Manon Bischoff edited by Daisy Yuhas The mathematics community is still in shock. On September…...

4+ hour, 41+ min ago   (444+ words) This study aims to integrate extension limit screening, engineering evaluation, and casing-shoe depth search into a decision-support method for offshore extended-reach wells. The method combines open-hole, mechanical, and hydraulic extension limits with fuzzy scoring, analytic hierarchy process (AHP) weights, and…...

9+ hour, 21+ min ago   (844+ words) Ivy Delaney has been working with neural networks and machine learning since the mid-nineties, back when a couple of hidden layers and a long afternoon of training counted as ambitious. She has watched the field go from academic curiosity to…...

8+ hour, 23+ min ago   (395+ words) The Hidden Nations of Animals: A Grand Tour of Earth’s Wild Civilizations by Ryan Huling. Avery, 2026. 288 pages.Buy on Bookshop.org Ryan Huling, a Los Angeles–based “explorer and sustainable food systems specialist,” wants us to expand this concept to…...

2+ hour, 39+ min ago   (426+ words) We live in a world obsessed with summarizing complexity. We want a single number to tell us how our product is performing, how much our target audience earns, or how long users spend on our platform. To do this, we…...

7+ hour, 12+ min ago   (35+ words) The achievements of a visionary mathematician, and a trip to the National Air and Space Museum in Washington DC, in this week’s pick from the Nature archive. Snippets from Nature’s past....

3+ hour, 31+ min ago   (175+ words) The PG & Research Department of Mathematics at Nirmala College for Women conducted a one-day International Conference on Modeling Strategies in Mathematics (ICMSM-2026) today. Organised in collaboration with the Department of Mathematics, University of Colombo, Sri Lanka, under an active Memorandum…...