Classically there is a clear distinction between theoretical and applied mathematics in the classification of different fields in the mathematical sciences. Bernd Sturmfels at the Max Planck Institute ...

Researchers have used metamathematical techniques to show that certain theorems that look superficially distinct are in fact ...

Kinetic theory and mathematical modelling have emerged as pivotal tools in analysing complex systems – ranging from biological entities and social interactions to financial markets. These methods ...

IT is only in quite recent times that mathematical methods have been applied in the social sciences or, indeed, in those fields, such as psychology, where the natural and the social sciences overlap.

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It is something like the "Holy Grail" of physics: unifying particle physics and gravitation. The world of tiny particles is ...

At the frontiers of theoretical physics, many of the most popular ideas have one thing in common: they begin from a mathematical framework that seeks to explain more things than our currently ...

Computer scientists in California have built a mathematical theory of surprise, working from first principles of probability theory applied to a digital environment, according to this news release ...

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