In "Mapmatics," a mathematician tells the stories of how math helps us track epidemics, map the seafloor, and plot a complex delivery route.

In the third century BCE, Apollonius of Perga asked how many circles one could draw that would touch three given circles at exactly one point each. It would take 1,800 years to prove the answer: eight ...

Medicare's "dirty little secrets" - the hidden costs, coverage gaps and commission conflicts that could cost retirees ...

As with statsmodels, Matplotlib does have a learning curve. There are two major interfaces, a low-level "axes" method and a ...

The sportsbook’s advantage, though, stems not from the long odds but from complicated math ... Calculating the expected hold ...

In certain circumstances, losses create a sure path to victory, an idea with implications for biology and cancer therapy ...

Where every known method of divination seemed to fail, a group of researchers at Bocconi University in Milan found a hint in ...

In investing, timing and planning play a crucial role in shaping outcomes. While Systematic Investment Plans (SIPs) are widely popular, many investors also look at the one-time route for wealth ...

In 1996 Spanish physicist Juan Parrondo made an incredible discovery: sometimes two games that each end in loss individually ...

General Intuition’s next milestone is twofold: generating new simulated worlds for training other agents and autonomously ...

OpenAI researchers prematurely celebrated on social media, announcing that the AI had solved a series of famously difficult ...