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Mathematics

Game theory shows we can never learn perfectly from our mistakes

An analysis of a mathematical economic game suggests that even learning from past mistakes will almost never help us optimise our decision-making – with implications for our ability to make the biggest financial gains

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Mathematics

Vindication for maths teachers: Pythagoras's theorem seen in the wild

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Patterns produced by 'polygon billiards'

Mathematics

Particles move in beautiful patterns when they have ‘spatial memory’

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Mathematician wins Turing award for harnessing randomness

Mathematics

Mathematician wins Turing award for harnessing randomness

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The mathematician who worked out how to time travel

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Occam’s razor

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Occam’s razor

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Mind

Single mathematical model governs primate brain shape across species

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These 7 mathematical facts will blow your mind

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Why science relies too much on mathematics

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Technology

DeepMind AI solves hard geometry problems from mathematics olympiad

AlphaGeometry scores almost as well as the best students on geometry questions from the International Mathematical Olympiad

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Mathematics

What the mathematics of knots reveals about the shape of the universe

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The mathematically perfect table size for solving any jigsaw puzzle

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Mathematics

Decades-old mathematical mystery about the Game of Life finally solved

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Mathematics

How spiral search patterns and lateral thinking cracked our puzzle

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