Computer scientists aim to determine how many steps a certain algorithm takes to solve a problem. For instance, a local […]
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Can You Walk on the Seafloor in a Rowboat Like Jack Sparrow?
But you already know this because what people often refer to as an object’s “weight” is actually its gravitational force […]
Optimal Strategies for Effective Optimization Revealed
The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. In 1939, George Dantzig, a first-year graduate student at UC […]
Unveiling the Secrets of Ocean Wave Mathematics
In 2011, Deconinck and Oliveras experimented with various disturbances at increasing frequencies to see how they affected the Stokes waves. […]