Wired

A New Quantum Algorithm Speeds Up Solving a Huge Class of Problems

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. For computer scientists, solving problems is a bit like mountaineering. First they must choose a problem to solve—akin to identifying a ...
The Hill

Few Americans want the US to take a more active role in global problem-solving: Poll

Few Americans say the United States should take a more active role in solving global problems, but partisans are split on whether they think the U.S. should take a less active role on the world stage, ...
JSTOR Daily

A Forward Algorithm for Solving Optimal Stopping Problems

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract We consider the optimal stopping problem for g(Zn), where Zn, n = 1,2,..., is a homogeneous Markov sequence. An algorithm, called forward ...
The Conversation

YouTube’s algorithms might radicalise people – but the real problem is we’ve no idea how they work

Chico Q. Camargo's work has been funded by the Volkswagen foundation, and by the Lloyd’s Register Foundation and the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) via the Alan Turing ...
JSTOR Daily

The role of theory building in the teaching of secondary geometry

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Although mathematical practice has traditionally valued two distinct kinds of mathematical work— referred to by Gowers (2000) as theory ...