Opinion polarization is often considered as the primary driver of social friction, leading to exhaustive efforts to force a consensus. However, new research suggests a more pragmatic goal: reducing ...

"What's the difference between mathematical optimization and machine learning?" This is a question that — as the CEO of a mathematical optimization software company — I get asked all the time.

Over the course of my 25-year career in the mathematical optimization software industry, I’ve lost count of how many times I’ve been asked this question: “Can you tell me what mathematical ...

Images of plants painted on pottery made up to 8,000 years ago may be the earliest example of humans’ mathematical thought, a ...

For you, math is not just about numbers. It’s what you can do with them to make the world better. In the Department of Mathematical Sciences at Michigan Tech, our faculty are passionate about ...

As a mathematical economics major at Bucknell, you'll dig past the data in spreadsheets and trend curves to uncover real stories and understand the quantitative models that drive global economic ...

Researchers are trying to understand why some wild species do better than others over time, as the environment changes.

Statistics is an ever-evolving arena; it plays a significant role in the growth of modern data science and machine learning. From a streaming service using viewer data to determine which programs to ...

Mathematics is one of the oldest disciplines of study. For all its antiquity, however, it is a modern, rapidly growing field. Only 70 years ago, mathematics might have been said to consist of algebra, ...

The same mathematical logic, say the researchers, is found in the formation of DNA—the deoxyribonucleic acid whose cells carry the genes and all instructions for development and survival of living ...

The seeds of a sunflower, the spines of a cactus, and the bracts of a pinecone all form whirling spiral patterns. Remarkable for their regularity and beauty, these natural structures also show some ...