When mathematics meets aesthetics: Tessellations as a precise tool for solving complex problems

In a recent study, mathematicians from Freie Universität Berlin have demonstrated that planar tiling, or tessellation, is ...

New black hole merger bolsters Hawking area theorem

Back in 1971, the late physicist Stephen Hawking made an intriguing prediction: The total surface area of a black hole cannot ...
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Two American Teenage Girls May Have Cracked a 2,000-Year-Old Math Puzzle With a Stunning New Pythagoras Proof

For over two millennia, mathematicians agreed on one thing: you can’t use trigonometry to prove Pythagoras’ Theorem—because trigonometry is built on it. That logic, drilled into students and scholars ...
The Business Journals

Workforce Warning: How to future-proof your talent pipeline

To continue reading this content, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings and refresh this page. Preview this article 1 min The job market has rapidly ...
IEEE

Strong Invariants for the Efficient Construction of Machine-Checked Protocol Security Proofs

Abstract: We embed an operational semantics for security protocols in the interactive theorem prover Isabelle/HOL and derive two strong protocol-independent invariants. These invariants allow us to ...
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Department of Mathematics

What began with a focus on weather forecasting has evolved toward addressing errors in scientific modeling. In the collaborative environment of the Penn State Institute for Computational and Data ...