Integer linear programming can help find the answer to a variety of real-world problems. Now researchers have found a much faster way to do it. Inspired by the results of a game-playing neural network ...

How is that doubling and not squaring? Is that a domain-specific use of the word doubling that's different from the everyday one? Normally "doubling" would be the function f(x) = 2x. Click to expand..

John C. Urschel is an assistant professor in the MIT Math Department and a Junior Fellow at the Harvard Society of Fellows. He previously played for the Baltimore Ravens. This interview has been ...

Middle School teacher Dan Powell sees math in Shakespeare. Or is Shakespeare in the math? Powell, a math teacher fond of quoting the Elizabethan playwright, often blurs the line between creative arts ...

The problem is efficiency. Maxwell's equations are completely linear, so nonlinear optics relies entirely on materials with nonlinear response to optical fields. Unfortunately these responses deviate ...