Life gets busy, and sometimes those basic math skills from school days get a little rusty. Whether you're budgeting, measuring for a DIY project, or just having a math-related brain teaser thrown your ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Imagine a town with two widget merchants. Customers prefer cheaper widgets, so the merchants must compete to set the lowest price.

1 School of Management, University of Shanghai for Science and Technology, Shanghai, China 2 Institute of Mathematical Sciences ICMAT-CSIC, Madrid, Spain In the open capacitated location-routing ...

DEFINITION: A process or set of mathematical instructions to be followed in calculations or other problem-solving operations, especially by a computer. ETYMOLOGY: Comes from French algorithme, ...

Children as young as 4 years old are capable of finding efficient solutions to complex problems, such as independently inventing sorting algorithms developed by computer scientists. The scientists ...

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The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. For computer scientists, solving problems is a bit like mountaineering. First they must choose a problem to solve—akin to identifying a ...

Why do some crowds move in an orderly fashion while others devolve into a chaotic jumble? New research led by an MIT mathematician may finally crack the tricky crowd problem. When you purchase through ...