Math

A new study introduces choice engineering—a powerful new way to guide decisions using math instead of guesswork. By applying carefully designed mathematical models, researchers found they could influence people’s choices more effectively than relying on […]

You scrambled up a Rubik’s cube, and now you want to put it back in order. What sequence of moves should you make?This article was originally published on this website.

Mathematicians love the certainty of proofs. This is how they verify that their intuition matches observable truth.This article was originally published on this website.

In our polarized political system, what’s one thing that Democrats and Republicans have in common? Growing distrust and dislike for each other.This article was originally published on this website.

A team of statistical researchers at Meta, owner of Facebook, working with colleagues from the University of Hong Kong and Harvard University, has applied a specially designed algorithm to analyze Facebook data to track human […]

A study led by researchers at the Columbia Butler Aging Center and the Columbia Mailman School of Public Health has unveiled a framework for rethinking political decision-making—drawing inspiration from how the human body maintains stability […]

A UNSW Sydney mathematician has discovered a new method to tackle algebra’s oldest challenge—solving higher polynomial equations.This article was originally published on this website.

Human populations need at least 2.7 children per woman—a much higher fertility rate than previously believed—to reliably avoid long-term extinction, according to a new study published in the open-access journal PLOS One by Takuya Okabe […]

What’s the best way for children to learn arithmetic—memorizing number values and multiplication tables, or studying math at a deeper, conceptual level?This article was originally published on this website.

Humans are known to make mental associations between various real-world stimuli and concepts, including colors. For example, red and orange are typically associated with words such as “hot” or “warm,” blue with “cool” or “cold,” […]