Using advanced mathematical tools inspired by physics, the team has derived a general equation for any number of tangent ...

Monash University researchers have extended Descartes’ Circle Theorem by finding a general equation for any number of tangent ...

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MIT scientists found that when people veer more than 13 degrees off-course in a crowd, orderly walking breaks down into ...

Mathematicians studied the flow of human crowds and developed a way to predict when pedestrian paths will transition from orderly to entangled. Their findings may help inform the design of public ...

Have you ever wondered why walking from point A to B can be easy in some places, and incredibly frustrating in others? Well, ...

Mathematics is often wrongly deemed as just a subject on the curriculum, rather than the subject that underpins it. Ems Lord, director of NRICH, tackles some of the key misconceptions regarding the ...

China Post has also developed several games that require math equations to solve on its WeChat account.

Meet “Mathemalchemy,” a traveling math-meets-art installation coming eventually to a dimension near you. By Siobhan Roberts Ingrid Daubechies, a mathematician at Duke University, is an expert ...

The internet is torn over an elementary-level math equation, with people suggesting conflicting answers based on their approaches. X users have weighed in on the basic problem - but only a ...

Student Hamid Naderi Yeganeh (UCL Mathematics) uses complex equations to create detailed artistic images on his computer without that look like they could have been drawn by hand. Mathematician ...