Mathematician

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  OTT Releases This Week (Jan 20- Jan 26): Hisaab Barabar, Sweet Dreams, and More

  This week’s OTT lineup brings a diverse range of films and series to enjoy. Hisaab Barabar, a gripping thriller featuring R. Madhavan, uncovers a massive financial conspiracy on ZEE5. For fans of romantic comedies, Sweet Dreams, starring Amol Parashar and Mithila Palkar, is a delightful exploration of destiny and love on Disney+ Hotstar. Conspira...

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  Prime Target Series Now Streaming on Apple TV+: Everything You Need to Know

  Prime Target, a new conspiracy thriller series, premiered on Apple TV+ on January 21, 2025. The show stars Leo Woodall as Edward Brooks, a mathematician who uncovers a world-changing loophole hidden in prime numbers, allowing access to global computer systems. This discovery sets him on a dangerous path, with powerful forces attempting to destroy h...

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  Mathematicians Uncover Science Behind Hula Hooping and Body Dynamics

  Mathematicians at New York University have delved into the science behind hula hooping, revealing that body shape plays a crucial role in maintaining the hoop's motion against gravity. Through experiments using miniature robotic models with different body shapes, the team demonstrated that specific physical attributes—such as sloping hips and a c...

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  Virginia Tech Mathematicians Use Algebraic Geometry to Reduce Data Centre Energy Use

  Researchers at Virginia Tech have applied algebraic geometry to improve energy efficiency in data centres. By using advanced polynomials and error-correcting codes, they have developed a new method for data storage and retrieval that reduces the need for excessive data replication and energy-intensive searching. This approach helps address the grow...

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  National Mathematics Day: Why It Is Celebrated On December 22

  Mr Ramanujan grew up in extreme poverty, yet he became one of the most influential mathematicians in history.

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  Mathematician Solves Decades-Old Sofa Problem with New Findings

  The decades-old "sofa problem," a mathematical puzzle concerning the largest sofa that can fit around a right-angled corner, has reportedly been resolved. Mathematician Jineon Baek, a postdoctoral researcher at Yonsei University in South Korea, has provided new findings suggesting that Joseph Gerver’s U-shaped sofa design is the most efficient an...

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  Epoch AI Launches FrontierMath AI Benchmark to Test Capabilities of AI Models

  Epoch AI, a California-based research institute launched a new artificial intelligence (AI) benchmark last week. Dubbed FrontierMath, the new AI benchmark tests large language models (LLMs) on their capability of reseasoning and mathematical problem-solving. The AI firm claims that existing math benchmarks are not very useful due to factors like da...

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  First Artwork By Humanoid Robot Sells For $1 Million

  A portrait of English mathematician Alan Turing became the first artwork by a humanoid robot to be sold at auction, fetching $1,320,000 on Thursday.

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  US Teens Come Up With 5 New Ways Of Proving Pythagoras Theorem Using Trigonometry

  Over the years, many mathematicians have tried to prove the theorem using algebra and geometry but using trigonometry was long believed impossible

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  Mathematicians Uncover Soft Cells, a New Class of Shapes in Nature

  Researchers have unveiled a new class of shapes called soft cells, which are common in nature. These shapes, characterised by their rounded corners and unique tessellation properties, can fill space without gaps. Found in structures such as nautilus shells and onions, soft cells minimise structural weaknesses, suggesting that nature favours these f...

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  This Navy SEAL, Mathematician, Harvard Doctor Will Now Be A NASA Astronaut

  Lieutenant Commander Jonny Kim has a resume that would make Asian parents swell with pride. At 40, he is already a decorated Navy SEAL, a Harvard-trained physician, and now, a NASA astronaut preparing for his next great adventure space.

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  2 Students, Who Met In 2017, Have Solved 57 Maths Theorems Since

  Three mathematicians have set a new limit for when patterns show up in sets of integers, making it the first progress on one of the major unsolved problems in the field of combinatorics in decades.

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  New Way To Represent "Pi"? 15th Century Indian Mathematician Had It First

  The new formula closely reaches the representation of pi suggested by Indian mathematician Sangamagrama Madhava in the 15th century.

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  Coming Soon, An Online Educational Platform For Poor By Super 30 Founder Anand Kumar

  Expanding of his pioneering Super 30 initiative, noted mathematician Anand Kumar has said that he would soon launch a new online platform to take education to the doorsteps of the poor and underprivileged students in India.

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  Lost To History, The Strange Story Of The Grave Of Nicholas Copernicus

  Nicholas Copernicus was the astronomer who, five centuries ago, explained that Earth revolves around the Sun, rather than vice versa. A true Renaissance man, he also practised as a mathematician, engineer, author, economic theorist and medical doctor