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How Does Math Relate to the Life Cycle of Periodical Cicadas?

Two broods of periodical cicadas have emerged together for the first time in over 200 years. Brood XIX...

📅 November 25, 2024

Penrose Tiling Problem and the “The Hat” Shape

In the world of mathematics, there are problems that have been around for centuries, or even millennia, waiting...

📅 April 7, 2023

Argentine-American Mathematician Luis Caffarelli Wins 2023 Abel Prize

The Abel Prize, named after Norwegian mathematician Niels Henrik Abel, is considered one of the highest honors in...

📅 March 24, 2023

‘Dhara: An Ode to Indian Knowledge Systems’ Initiative

The Ministry of Culture’s flagship initiative, “Dhara: An Ode to Indian Knowledge Systems,” has completed its first year....

📅 March 6, 2023

Honeybees capable of parity categorization

Honeybees are the only non-humans found to be capable of learning parity categorization. Key facts Parity classification is...

📅 September 27, 2022

Mathematician Tony Lewis passes away

Mathematician Tony Lewis passed away on April 1st, 2020. He is noted for the Duckworth Lewis Stern method...

📅 April 3, 2020

Abel Prize, 2020 to Hillel Frustenberg and Gregory Margulis

The Norwegian Academy of Science is to award the Abel Prize for the year 2020 to the two...

📅 March 25, 2020

Katharine Johnson

NASA mathematician, Katharine Johnson, passed away at the age of 101 recently. She is noted for not only...

📅 February 27, 2020

Special Textbooks by Uttar Pradesh Government for Kids suffering from Intellectual Disabilities

In perhaps first such move in the country, the Uttar Pradesh Government has started developing textbooks from classes...

📅 January 10, 2020

Israel scientist develops a concept named Ramanujan Machine

The scientists from Technion — Israel Institute of Technology (IIT) have developed a concept & have named Ramanujan...

📅 July 20, 2019

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