In 1994, a paper published in the journal Diabetes Care appeared to claim the discovery of "Tai's Model", a "mathematical model for the determination of total areas under curves from various metabolic ...

In the late 19th century, Karl Weierstrass invented a fractal-like function that was decried as nothing less than a “deplorable evil.” In time, it would transform the foundations of mathematics.

The song of the chingolo can be heard across South America. But young songbirds were no longer learning the tunes of their ...

After lecturing for about half an hour, Radunskaya invited the Pneum Quartet, a student string quartet-in-residence at Jacobs School of Music, to perform “Nefarious Networks,” a four-part piece she ...

The Conversation spotlights Ada Lovelace, a female programming pioneer, more than a century before digital electronic ...

But Lovelace — properly Ada King, Countess of Lovelace after her marriage — drew on many different fields for her innovative ...

The difference between music as representable by notation/MIDI and music as it exists in sound ... but you probably didn’t need a deep mathematical analysis to tell you that. In Bach, note transitions ...

A skilled poker player transforms raw table observations into profitable decisions, but the real secret lies in systematic ...

Abstract: The zeros of the Bessel functions and Bessel function deriviatives are identified by standard waveguide notation which also serves as a code for more general mathematical applications.

Other unsolved mathematical mysteries are akin to the branches of trees. The trees themselves—fields within the wider subject ...