Abstract: Graph theory is a powerful tool for addressing problems involving discrete structures, such as determining the shortest length of connected river networks or the shortest distance between ...

Mathematicians are still trying to understand fundamental properties of the Fourier transform, one of their most ubiquitous ...

One day in November, a product strategist we’ll call Michelle (not her real name), logged into her LinkedIn account and switched her gender to male. She also changed her name to Michael, she told ...

Landlords could no longer rely on rent-pricing software to quietly track each other's moves and push rents higher using confidential data, under a settlement between RealPage Inc. and federal ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Imagine a town with two widget merchants. Customers prefer cheaper widgets, so the merchants must compete to set the lowest price.

All of modern mathematics is built on the foundation of set theory, the study of how to organize abstract collections of objects. But in general, research mathematicians don’t need to think about it ...

Google’s June 2025 Core Update just finished. What’s notable is that while some say it was a big update, it didn’t feel disruptive, indicating that the changes may have been more subtle than game ...

The burnt toast theory is a metaphor for life that helps people interpret minor inconveniences as having positive ripple effects or a “silver lining.” It’s related to the butterfly effect. While not a ...

1 Department of Industrial Engineering and Maintenance, Polytechnic University of Mongo, Mongo, Chad. 2 Department of Technical Sciences, University of N’Djamena, N’Djamena, Chad. 3 Department of ...

Covid-19 broke the charts. Decades from now, the pandemic will be visible in the historical data of nearly anything measurable today: an unmistakable spike, dip or jolt that officially began for ...