How do opinions form and change in large groups of people? That's not just a sociological question, it's a mathematical one.

In a recent write-up, [David Delony] explains how he built a Wolfram Mathematica-like engine with Python. Core to the system is SymPy for symbolic math support. [David] said being able to work with ...

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In a recent study, mathematicians from Freie Universität Berlin have demonstrated that planar tiling, or tessellation, is much more than a way to create a pretty pattern. Consisting of a surface ...

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Step 1: Write your full birth name exactly as it appears on your birth certificate. This means including your first, middle, and last names. Step 4: Add the digits together until you get a single ...

Why is untangling two small knots more difficult than unravelling one big one? Surprisingly, mathematicians have found that larger and seemingly more complex knots created by joining two simpler ones ...