Why is it that particular equations, formulas and expressions become icons, asks Robert P Crease For some people this expression, named after the 18th-century Swiss mathematician Leonhard Euler, even ...

The Annals of Applied Probability, Vol. 28, No. 3 (June 2018), pp. 1943-1976 (34 pages) The initial-boundary value problem for the heat equation is solved by using an algorithm based on a random walk ...

Quantum computers can do wondrous things: too bad they do not exist yet. That has not stopped physicists from devising new algorithms for the devices, which can calculate a lot faster than ordinary ...

THE roots of algebra, as John Derbyshire tells us, go back to the ancient world: the Babylonians left cuneiform tablets showing simple algebraic problems. Its actual birth is usually credited to ...

In a new development that is most likely to establish a new industry standard, scientists at Cambridge Quantum (CQ) have created a new algorithm for solving combinatorial optimization problems that ...