The content recommendation algorithm that powers the online short video platform TikTok has once again come under the ...

India is the homeland of many greatest Mathematicians but Srinivasa Ramanujan is someone who remains one of the most ...

Social media companies and their respective algorithms have repeatedly been accused of fueling political polarization by promoting divisive content on their platforms. Now, two U.S. Senators have ...

The Recursive Division Tree (RDT) algorithm is a mathematical process for measuring the logarithmic height of positive integers. For any integer ( n \ge 2 ), it recursively divides by logarithm-based ...

ABSTRACT: In this paper, an Optimal Predictive Modeling of Nonlinear Transformations “OPMNT” method has been developed while using Orthogonal Nonnegative Matrix Factorization “ONMF” with the ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. If you want to solve a tricky problem, it often helps to get organized. You might, for example, break the problem into pieces and tackle ...

In an era dominated by social media, misinformation has become an all too familiar foe, infiltrating our feeds and sowing seeds of doubt and confusion. With more than half of social media users across ...

We'd like an initial version of an algorithm to choose which partitions a bulk import job should write files for, based on a target number of partitions. For this initial version, we can assume that ...

Ken Ono, a top mathematician and advisor at the University of Virginia, has helped uncover a striking new way to find prime numbers—those puzzling building blocks of arithmetic that have kept ...

Katie has a PhD in maths, specializing in the intersection of dynamical systems and number theory. She reports on topics from maths and history to society and animals. Katie has a PhD in maths, ...