Joan Birman popularized the Burau representation problem decades ago. Now she and two colleagues have a proof that reveals ...

The Fields Medal, known as the Nobel Prize of mathematics, was awarded Thursday to four people—two Chinese citizens, one American and one Canadian.

Focus, commitment, and insight resulted in a “once in a century” proof. Hong Wang is now just the third woman to win a Fields ...

The sudden “eureka” insights that drive progress in science and mathematics remain shrouded in mystery. Here, we borrow theory and methods from statistical physics and theoretical ecology to attempt ...

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Sentence-based mathematics problem-solving skills are essential as the skills can improve the ability to deal with various mathematical problems in daily life, increase the imagination, develop ...

The grand challenge in structure-based drug design is achieving accurate prediction of binding free energies. Molecular dynamics (MD) simulations enable modeling of conformational changes critical to ...

Prompted by the increasing interest in networks in many fields, we present an attempt at unifying points of view and analyses of these objects coming from the social sciences, statistics, probability ...