Mathematics - General News

Method rapidly verifies that a robot will avoid collisions

 Mathematics - General News
 07 March 2024
A new safety-check technique can prove with 100 percent accuracy that a planned robot motion will not result in a collision. The method can generate a proof in seconds and does so in a way that can be easily verified by a human....

Drawings of mathematical problems predict their resolution

 Mathematics - General News
 07 March 2024
Solving arithmetic problems, even simple subtractions, involves mental representations whose influence remains to be clarified. Visualizing these representations would enable us to better understand our reasoning and adapt our teaching methods. A team has now analyzed drawings made by children and...

Contagious maths

 Mathematics - General News
 12 February 2024
How does maths help in tackling infectious diseases? Join Julia Gog to find out in this series of videos and articles, and have a go at modelling diseases yourself! ...

New method flips the script on topological physics

 Mathematics - General News
 25 January 2024
The branch of mathematics known as topology has become a cornerstone of modern physics thanks to the remarkable -- and above all reliable -- properties it can impart to a material or system. Unfortunately, identifying topological systems, or even designing new ones, is generally a tedious process...

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