For years, physicists were stuck in trying to explain an important mathematical problem in physics. The right approach ended ...

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Get your timer out and see whether you can remember the golden rule from grade school math class.

Abstract: In this article, we propose a model predictive control (MPC) with a single-step prediction horizon to approximate the solution of infinite horizon optimal control problems with the expected ...

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Think about placing dots on a flat surface. You want as many pairs as possible to be separated by the same distance. For any amount of dots, what is the greatest possible number of pairs that can be ...

Artificial intelligence is mastering the kinds of projects that have long helped to build the careers of young mathematicians. What does that mean for their future? Credit...Illustrations by Yoshi ...

A close-up of the National Ignition Facility at Lawrence Livermore National Labs, a fusion system similar to the DT type modeled for the new study. Credit: Steve Jurvetson via Flickr, CC 2.0 license ...

Place any number of dots on a two-dimensional plane—say, a piece of paper—and measure the distance between each pair. If you rearrange the dots, how many pairs could be positioned exactly the same ...

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