Science news articles about 'theorems'

  • Parcelatories' Powers - Equations Like Fermat's Last Theorem

    ... at the same level of awareness that created them."(Albert Einstein, 1920) theorem among many from which is possible to be obtained by analysis of Parcelatories, is the called Parcelatories' Powers ...
  • Where mathematics and astrophysics meet

    ... every new instance produces welcome insights and sheer delight. In their article "From the Fundamental Theorem of Algebra to Astrophysics: A `Harmonious' Path", which appears today in the Notices of ...
  • Extreme appeal: voters trust extreme positions more than moderate ones, study finds

    ... 's paper is an important challenge to the widely accepted median voter theorem. In the median voter theorem, voters who are fully informed will use their understanding when casting a ballot, choosing ...
  • Making waves

    ... a significant version of the quantum unique ergodicity (QUE) conjecture. "This is one of the best theorems of the year," said Peter Sarnak, a mathematician from Princeton who along with Zeev Rudnick ...
  • Proof by computer

    ... new developments in the use of formal proof in mathematics. When mathematicians prove theorems in the traditional way, they present the argument in narrative form. They assume previous results, they ...
  • New twist on 40-year-old discovery

    ... Newtonian condition for a Carter constant was identical to the condition imposed by the black hole no-hair theorems," said Will. "Do I know why this happens? So far, not a clue. "But what I really ...
  • Statistical road safety

    ... -1761) was not only a church minister but also the mathematician who formulated a probability theorem that can be used to solve problems that stymie conventional statistics. The crux of his theorem ...
  • Science Weekly: Christopher Potter's history of the universe

    ... popular science books of the past few decades, including Dava Sobel's Longitude and Fermat's Last Theorem by our own columnist Simon Singh. He has also worked on fiction by celebrated novelists Annie ...
  • Duke physicists see the cosmos in a coffee cup

    ... have anything to do with nature." The Duke researchers said that for the simplest caustics, the theorem has already been corroborated by a few actual gravitational lensing observations. And they ...
  • Carnegie Mellon scientists develop method for verifying safety of computer-controlled devices

    ... method analyzes the logic underlying the system design, much as a mathematician uses a proof to determine that a theorem is correct. Clarke shared the 2007 A.M. Turing Award, generally considered the ...
  • Mathematical advances strengthen IT security

    ... played an important role in the solution of the famous problem, Fermat's Last Theorem, in the early 1990s, and also ironically has been exploited for attacks on RSA cryptography. The potential for ...
  • CSHL scientists harness logic of 'Sudoku' math puzzle to vastly enhance genome-sequencing capability

    ... ,000-year-old Chinese math theorem with concepts from cryptology, the CSHL scientists have devised ... 000-year-old Chinese remainder theorem. "It minimizes the number of pools and the amount of sequencing ...
  • DNA Sudoku

    A 2,000-year-old math theorem, along with Sudoku, may soon help researchers untangle DNA at blazing speeds. [More]
  • Cambridge Physicists Devise Working Scientific Model for Successful Revolutions

    ... or other aspects of society, Zhang and his colleagues see their model as a universal theorem--a recipe, if you will, for grassroots efforts to have a chance against the machine. The interesting part ...
  • A trillion triangles

    ... prove, that 1 is not a congruent number. That proof was supplied by Fermat (of "Fermat's last theorem" fame) in 1659. By 1915 the congruent numbers less than 100 had been determined, and in 1952 Kurt ...

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