Articles tagged "math"

New and painless techniques show promise for improving math ability via electroshock.

But finding the biggest one is worth a $100,000 prize.

Good ol' evolution beats out technology again.

A new study by researchers at the University of Chicago has found that people who get anxious about math experience a neurological reaction similar to experiencing physical pain when they solve math problems.

The thing used to protect most of your digital secrets -- credit card numbers, email accounts, bank account information, whatever -- is a peculiar sort of lock and key, a variety of encryption called public key cryptography. In this secrecy scheme, t…

Last year, a programmer from Japan and a 23- year old student from Northwestern "continued humanity's obsession":http://motherboard.vice.com/2011/10/26/occu-%CF%80-the-strange-history-of-counting-to-pi-3-14159265301 with _pi_ when they successfully c…

It's been one of those weeks: the kind where the Syrian government bombs neighborhoods into dust, a hundred or so people die, and despite international condemnations, the black hole of the uprising just keeps swirling. Is there any reason for hope? I…

The latest calculation of _pi_ required a programmer, a hacked together 48-terabyte hard drive, a lot of hours and a very patient spouse. But humans have been crunching the number Pi since people were scrawling on papyrus.