Tag archive: matemáticas
El truco detrás del «misterioso» número 37 y otras fórmulas matemáticas virales
Aunque muchos lo achaquen a razones que van desde la magia a la belleza, lo cierto es que la explicación no puede ser más racional
Scientists use big data to sway elections and predict riots — welcome to the 1960s
A cold-war-era corporation targeted voters and presaged many of today’s big-data controversies.
At the Math Olympiad, Computers Prepare to Go for the Gold
Computer scientists are trying to build an AI system that can win a gold medal at the world’s premier math competition.
How Mathematical ‘Hocus-Pocus’ Saved Particle Physics
Renormalization has become perhaps the single most important advance in theoretical physics in 50 years.
El teorema del mosquito y la teoría de los eventos
Sir Ronald Ross descubrió el papel clave de los mosquitos en la transmisión de la malaria, por lo que obtuvo el premio Nobel de Fisiología o Medicina en 1902. Menos conocidos son sus intentos de desarrollar lo que él llamó una “teoría de los eventos”.
Mathematicians Report New Discovery About the Dodecahedron
Three mathematicians have resolved a fundamental question about straight paths on the 12-sided Platonic solid.
How Close Are Computers to Automating Mathematical Reasoning?
AI tools are shaping next-generation theorem provers, and with them the relationship between math and machine.
How Physics Found a Geometric Structure for Math to Play With
Symplectic geometry is a relatively new field with implications for much of modern mathematics. Here’s what it’s all about.
Mathematicians Will Never Stop Proving the Prime Number Theorem
Why do mathematicians enjoy proving the same results in different ways?
What Is an Individual? Biology Seeks Clues in Information Theory.
To recognize strange extraterrestrial life and solve biological mysteries on this planet, scientists are searching for an objective definition for life’s basic units.