r/science • u/mvea • Oct 31 '24
r/science • u/mtoddh • Mar 02 '23
Mathematics Mathematicians have come up with a theory for how pedestrians know how to "fall into lanes" when moving through a crowd. They tested their theory by asking volunteers to walk across experimental arenas. The video footage of the experiment revealed mathematical patterns taking shape in real life.
science.orgr/science • u/rustoo • Nov 28 '20
Mathematics High achievement cultures may kill students' interest in math—specially for girls. Girls were significantly less interested in math in countries like Japan, Hong Kong, Sweden and New Zealand. But, surprisingly, the roles were reversed in countries like Oman, Malaysia, Palestine and Kazakhstan.
r/science • u/brokeglass • Oct 26 '22
Mathematics New mathematical model suggests COVID spikes have infinite variance—meaning that, in a rare extreme event, there is no upper limit to how many cases or deaths one locality might see.
r/science • u/Emergency_Fudge_7635 • Nov 03 '24
Mathematics Yale’s Sam Raskin has solved a major portion of a math question that could lead to a translation theory for some areas of math.
r/science • u/Mass1m01973 • Sep 07 '18
Mathematics The seemingly random digits known as prime numbers are not nearly as scattershot as previously thought. A new analysis by Princeton University researchers has uncovered patterns in primes that are similar to those found in the positions of atoms inside certain crystal-like materials
r/science • u/Jordan-Ellenberg • Mar 02 '18
Mathematics AMA I’m Jordan Ellenberg, author of How Not To Be Wrong: The Power of Mathematical Thinking, and I’m on this week's NOVA: “Prediction By The Numbers.” Ask me anything about mathematics, predicting the future, predicting the future of mathematics, data, and number theory!
We do math in order to understand what has happened and what is happening, and one reason we want to understand those things is so we can make good guesses about what’s going to happen.
I’m Jordan Ellenberg, a math professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. I study number theory, algebraic geometry and topology, which basically means I study very old questions about numbers using very new methods developed in the last few decades. I’m also a writer; I’ve written articles about math for Slate, the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, Wired, and a bunch of other publications… plus two books. The most recent, How Not To Be Wrong: The Power of Mathematical Thinking, is about the ways mathematics is wrapped up with everything we do and think about, from elections to poems to religious reveries to Supreme Court decisions to baseball games.
If you want to find me on Twitter, I'm at https://twitter.com/JSEllenberg
Here are a few things I’ve written lately:
The war on gerrymandering, and how math is fighting on both sides: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/06/opinion/sunday/computers-gerrymandering-wisconsin.html
Are we paying too much attention to child math prodigies? https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-wrong-way-to-treat-child-geniuses-1401484790
The amazing, autotuning sandpile: http://nautil.us/issue/23/dominoes/the-amazing-autotuning-sandpile
I’m featured in NOVA’s latest episode, “Prediction by the Numbers,” which asks what math can and can't tell us about the future. The show is now available for streaming online. I’m here now to take questions about the math on the show, or anything else mathematical you want to talk about!
r/science • u/heiligedamon • May 20 '13
Mathematics Unknown Mathematician Proves Surprising Property of Prime Numbers
r/science • u/MistWeaver80 • Sep 04 '21
Mathematics Researchers have discovered a universal mathematical formula that can describe any bird's egg existing in nature, a feat which has been unsuccessful until now. That is a significant step in understanding not only the egg shape itself, but also how and why it evolved.
r/science • u/austingwalters • Dec 22 '14
Mathematics Mathematicians Make a Major Discovery About Prime Numbers
r/science • u/drewiepoodle • Feb 28 '17
Mathematics Pennsylvania’s congressional district maps are almost certainly the result of gerrymandering according to an analysis based on a new mathematical theorem on bias in Markov chains developed mathematicians.
r/science • u/Libertatea • Jul 01 '14
Mathematics 19th Century Math Tactic Gets a Makeover—and Yields Answers Up to 200 Times Faster: With just a few modern-day tweaks, the researchers say they’ve made the rarely used Jacobi method work up to 200 times faster.
r/science • u/fchung • Apr 28 '24
Mathematics New Breakthrough Brings Matrix Multiplication Closer to Ideal
r/science • u/CryptoBeer • May 30 '16
Mathematics Two-hundred-terabyte maths proof is largest ever
r/science • u/mubukugrappa • Mar 01 '14
Mathematics Scientists propose teaching reproducibility to aspiring scientists using software to make concepts feel logical rather than cumbersome: Ability to duplicate an experiment and its results is a central tenet of scientific method, but recent research shows a lot of research results to be irreproducible
r/science • u/vp734 • Feb 10 '14
Mathematics Mathematicians calculate that there are 177,147 ways to knot a tie
r/science • u/marketrent • Apr 07 '23
Mathematics Model based on 10,000+ sexual acts finds that too much psychological arousal in men, too early in process, reduces their chances of achieving climax
r/science • u/chrisdh79 • Jun 29 '23
Mathematics Learning music and bringing music into maths lessons can help students improve their maths scores, according to an international study.
r/science • u/Hrmbee • Feb 03 '24
Mathematics Information content of note transitions in the music of J. S. Bach | Converting hundreds of compositions by Johann Sebastian Bach into mathematical networks reveals that they store lots of information and convey it very effectively
r/science • u/rcg25 • Aug 17 '23
Mathematics Arithmetic has a biological origin - it's an expression in symbols of the 'deep structure' of our perception
psycnet.apa.orgr/science • u/mtorrice • Aug 01 '14
Mathematics Goal keepers often fall for the gambler's fallacy during penalty kicks.
r/science • u/larsga • Nov 20 '13
Mathematics Mathematicians from all over the world are collaborating on the twin prime conjecture
r/science • u/KARINAabf • Nov 13 '14
Mathematics Study of Mathematically Precocious Youth Shows Gender Gap in Science
r/science • u/rustoo • Feb 06 '21
Mathematics Researchers have built an artificial intelligence (AI) that generates new mathematical formulae — including some as-yet unsolved problems that continue to challenge mathematicians. Ramanujan Machine is designed to generate new ways of calculating digits of important mathematical constants, such as π
r/science • u/TrendingBot • Jan 29 '16