No doctor ever counseled Lametra Scott and her husband, Rickey Buggs, to get a simple blood test that would have warned them they each carried a mutated gene that — if inherited from both — would cause sickle cell disease in their baby. It was only after a routine blood test around week 16 of […]
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How Math Solved the Case of Unexploded Volcanic Bombs
It would be logical to hear the term “volcanic bomb” and assume that such an object tends to explode. But a particular type of volcanic bomb rarely lives up to the second half of its name: These objects pop up into the air, fall to the ground, and do not explode disappointingly. These volcanic bombs […]
Are computers ready to solve this cumbersome math problem that everyone knows?
In a sense, the computer and the Collatz conjecture are a perfect match. First, as Jeremy Avigad, a logician and professor of philosophy at Carnegie Mellon, points out, the concept of an iterative algorithm is at the heart of computer science, and Collatz sequences are an example of an iterative algorithm and step-by-step accordingly. Similar […]
Are computers ready to solve this cumbersome math problem that everyone knows?
In a sense, the computer and the Collatz conjecture are a perfect match. First, as Jeremy Avigad, a logician and professor of philosophy at Carnegie Mellon, points out, the concept of an iterative algorithm is at the heart of computer science, and Collatz sequences are an example of an iterative algorithm and step-by-step accordingly. Similar […]
