#Q&A: What’s math got to do with peace?

“#Q&A: What’s math got to do with peace?” Credit: Sustainable Peace Project Larry Liebovitch is a professor in the Department of Physics and the Department of Psychology at Queens College, and at the Physics Program of the Graduate Center, City University of New York. He is also a core faculty member of the Sustaining Peace…

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#How we ‘hear’ the shape of a drum

“#How we ‘hear’ the shape of a drum” Credit: CC0 Public Domain How is it that we can recognise the shape of an object despite only seeing a limited range of wave lengths? Radboud mathematician Walter van Suijlekom explains in a new publication in the journal Communications in Mathematical Physics on 14 July. “We can…

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#New mathematical idea reins in AI bias towards making unethical and costly commercial choices

“#New mathematical idea reins in AI bias towards making unethical and costly commercial choices” Credit: CC0 Public Domain Researchers from the University of Warwick, Imperial College London, EPFL (Lausanne) and Sciteb Ltd have found a mathematical means of helping regulators and business manage and police Artificial Intelligence systems’ biases towards making unethical, and potentially very…

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#Countries group into clusters as COVID-19 outbreak spreads

“#Countries group into clusters as COVID-19 outbreak spreads” LEFT: Heat maps track the changing cluster membership of the fifteen most severely impacted countries with respect to numbers of COVID-19 cases. Cluster membership depicts COVID-19 severity relative to the rest of the world. Clusters are ordered with 1 being the worst impacted at any time. Darker…

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#Researchers create easy-to-use math-aware search interface

“#Researchers create easy-to-use math-aware search interface” A team of RIT faculty and student researchers created MathDeck, a math-aware search interface that makes sophisticated mathematics more user friendly on the computer. Credit: Rochester Institute of Technology Researchers at Rochester Institute of Technology have developed MathDeck, an online search interface that allows anyone to easily create, edit…

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#Mathematicians behind JPEG files honored by Spanish award

“#Mathematicians behind JPEG files honored by Spanish award” In this Aug. 19, 2010 file photo Yves Meyer during an event in Hyderabad, India, Thursday. An international team of mathematicians whose theories have improved the compression of large digital files of data, including images and sound, will be recognized by one of this year’s Princess of…

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