These are math’s most famous open questions. Solve one, and you’ll win a $1-million prize—but it’s only happened once since ...

Pew Research Center’s 2026 political typology divides the public into nine groups. The assignment of individuals to one of ...

Artificial intelligence is mastering the kinds of projects that have long helped to build the careers of young mathematicians ...

Are two sets of data genuinely different, or is it because of randomness? This question, known as the two-sample testing problem, becomes notoriously difficult in modern datasets, because they are ...

Abstract: In this article, we present a distributed algorithm to solve a class of multirobot task assignment problems. We formulate task assignment as a mathematical optimization and solve for optimal ...

Royce Lewis looks pretty healthy. Beginning a rehab assignment with Triple-A St. Paul on Saturday afternoon, Lewis blasted a home run into the bullpen in left-center field in his first plate ...

According to the assignment instructions, Fulnecky was to write “a thoughtful discussion of some aspect of the article.” Graduate instructor Mel Curth believed she did not do so, grading her paper a 0 ...

The leading approach to the simplex method, a widely used technique for balancing complex logistical constraints, can’t get any better. In 1939, upon arriving late to his statistics course at the ...

IGUA is a method for high-throughput content-agnostic identification of Gene Cluster Families (GCFs) from gene clusters of genomic and metagenomic origin. It performs three clustering iterations to ...