Abstract: The Nelder-Mead simplex method is a well-known algorithm enabling the minimization of functions that are not available in closed-form and that need not be differentiable or convex.

Board games boost youngsters' maths skills, according to new research. Children learn to count as they move pieces along a numbered path in games such as snakes and ladders, say scientists. The study ...

If the cards shown here are rearranged to form four new poker hands of five cards each, what is the lowest possible winning or tying hand? When two hands are of the same type, such as a pair or a ...

Abstract: This paper addresses a task assignment problem to organize a flock of autonomous vehicles (AUVs) by proposing a game theory-based decentralized algorithm. The algorithm employs a ...

The working-age population in the United States is not growing, at least not enough to measure. With President Trump’s immigration enforcement, we may even have more people leaving the country than ...

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Class is almost over—but instead of zoning out or packing up early, your students are hunched over their work, erasing, recalculating, and debating. The room buzzes with the rich math talk every ...

Russell has a PhD in the history of medicine, violence, and colonialism. His research has explored topics including ethics, science governance, and medical involvement in violent contexts. Russell has ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. In 1994, an earthquake of a proof shook up the mathematical world. The mathematician Andrew Wiles had finally settled Fermat’s Last ...

Ever wonder how nodes are incentivized in a blockchain to ensure trust, consensus and cooperation in a system with no central authority? The answer lies in game theory, the mathematical study of ...