In the mid-19th century, Bernhard Riemann conceived of a new way to think about mathematical spaces, providing the foundation for modern geometry and physics.

Two decades ago, the mathematician Moon Duchin spent her summers teaching geometry at Mathcamp, a program for mathematically ...

An elastic metamaterial can do math by directing motion through tiny pathways, showing how materials might one day handle simple computing tasks without electronics.

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The uncertainty inherent to quantum mechanics has long left physicists wondering whether the observations we make on the ...

Excel's VALUE function has only one argument: where a is the value stored as text that you want to convert into a number.

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Qualcomm had datacenter envy back when Intel ruled the bit barns of the world, and now it has it even worse now that Nvidia ...

A research team from the University of Cologne conducted one of the most comprehensive studies on dopamine and decision-making in humans so far, providing evidence for effects of the former on the ...

A research team from the University of Cologne conducted one of the most comprehensive studies on dopamine and ...

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