By extending a proof of a physically important behavior in one-dimensional quantum spin systems to higher dimensions, a RIKEN ...

Sir John Ball, a professor of mathematics has been awarded a prestigious fellowship by the Institute for Advanced Study.

Predicting and controlling disease outbreaks would be easier and more reliable with the wider application of mathematical modelling, according to a new study. Predicting and controlling disease ...

Thompson, a senior policy fellow at the London School of Economics, debuts with an eye-opening account of the limits and uses of mathematical models. Thompson explains that models are metaphors for ...

Skoltech scientists have devised a mathematical model of memory. By analyzing its new model, the team came to surprising ...

A team led by Dr. Yuri Tolkach at the University of Cologne's Faculty of Medicine and University Hospital Cologne has investigated prostate tumors and developed an advanced, realistic, ...

This year, a record number of 20,602 teams from across the world competed in the 34 th annual International Mathematical Contest in Modeling (MCM/ICM). From February 8 th through February 12 th (only ...

Inspired by the recent work of Bertalmio et al. on digital inpaintings [SIGGRAPH 2000], we develop general mathematical models for local inpaintings of nontexture images. On smooth regions, ...

New research has identified the processes that underpin the trajectories of microplastics below the ocean surface. The authors analyzed how biofouling -- the accumulation of algae on the surface of ...