Mathematics

The Probability Of Winning A Baseball Game- And A Post-Season Prediction

As an Applied Mathematician, I like to use mathematical modeling and computational techniques to try to better understand how things work in the world around me. One application I have studied over a number of years is how to compute the number of runs (a ...

Article - Bruce Bukiet - Oct 1 2013 - 12:40pm

The Mathematics Of Peer Pressure

A new paper uses mathematical models to examine the effect of direct and indirect social influences, otherwise known as peer pressure, on how decisions are reached on important issues. The data taken from 15 networks, including groups as disparate as U.S. ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 9 2013 - 11:35am

Predicting Baseball The Science Way: The Red Sox Have A Big Edge In The World Series

The World Series begins in a few hours and while they have to play the games, math can project winners and losers- and the math says the Boston Red Sox have a 70% chance of winning it all. Unlike a Presidential contest, which is one day and one winner but ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 23 2013 - 4:41pm

Von Neumann-Day Math Problem Solved

The famous Von Neumann-Day math problem, first described by mathematician John von Neumann in 1929, has gotten a geometric solution, according to Cornell University researchers. Graduate student Yash Lodha, working with Justin Moore, professor of mathemat ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 18 2013 - 3:00pm

Build A Wormhole Between Entangled Quantum Particles- Mathematically, Anyway

Quantum entanglement, the phenomenon of quantum mechanics that Albert Einstein once referred to as "spooky action at a distance," could be even spookier- hypothetically. Quantum entanglement occurs when a pair or a group of particles interact in ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 4 2013 - 1:26pm

A Cookbook For Spacetime- No Big Bang Needed

As you know, when heat in soup is increased, it will eventually boil. When time and space are heated, an expanding universe can emerge, without requiring anything like a "Big Bang", according to a new math paper. The math behind this phase trans ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 11 2013 - 11:47am

Tail Concordance

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Article - Anonymous - Jan 16 2014 - 7:01pm

Innate Number Sense: Baby Math Is More Powerful Than You Might Think

The difference between 1 and 2 and 101 and 102 is the same, yet children perceive 1 and 2 as being much farther apart, because two is twice as much as one. It takes years of education to recognize that the numbers in both sets are only one integer apart o ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 22 2014 - 5:30pm

Taming Infinity: The Sum Of All Powers Of Two

An infinite number of mathematicians walk into a bar. The first mathematician orders a beer. The second orders two beers. The next orders four. Followed by the next who orders eight. The bartender interrupts them: "ok guys, cut the crap: you owe me o ...

Article - Johannes Koelman - Feb 1 2014 - 2:43pm

Academics Say They Can Predict Stock Prices- With Better Than Coin Flip Accuracy And A Minute In Advance

Stock price movements are predictable during short windows, according to a paper written by academics in the Tippie College of Business at the University of Iowa. They write that price movements can be predicted with a better than 50-50 accuracy for anywh ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 5 2014 - 3:20pm