Math
We summarize the week's scientific breakthroughs every Thursday.
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Artful Routes
Finding the shortest routes linking cities can also produce intricate continuous-line portraits.
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Pennies in a Tray
Packing pennies in circular trays can lead to intriguing mathematical complexities.
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Take a Chance
Researchers are helping to turn the art of generating randomness into a precise science.
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Con Artist: Scanning program can discern true art
A new mathematical tool distills painting style into an array of statistics as a potential means to spot forgeries.
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The Iced Foot Effect
Does calling a timeout as a defensive strategy to "ice" a kicker in football actually reduce the chances of a successful field goal kick?
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Football’s Overtime Bias
The coin toss appears to play a significant role in deciding the winner in pro football's sudden-death overtime.
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Squaring Circles
Cutting a circle into pieces and reassembling the fragments to form a square is a tricky proposition.
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Young Gauss
Mathematical anecdotes don't always tell the whole truth and nothing but the truth.
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A Catalog of Random Bits
The generation of random numbers is too important to be left to chance.
