Math

Congratulations to Rachel Bernasconi for passing her PhD viva! The viva took place on Friday 20 February. Rachel‘s thesis was on “A functional anatomy of sleep/wake modelling.” Her examiners were Prof Steve Coombes (Nottingham) and Prof Victoria Booth (University of Michigan), with Werner …

Subscribe to our ▶️ YouTube channel 🔴 for the latest videos, updates, and tips. Face value and place value are two important concepts in elementary mathematics. Understanding the difference between face value and place value helps students read and write numbers correctly. …

[This post is written in my capacity as Vice-Chair of the Board of Trustees of SLMath. -T.] SLMath, formerly MSRI, has launched the search for the next Deputy Director. This key position is a close advisor to the Director and shares …

The paper “Decoherence from universal tomographic measurements“, co-authored by Dorje Brody and Rishindra Melanathuru, has been published this week in Physical Review Research (open access link here). In the paper, the effect of decoherence is analyzed by studying the evolution …

Subscribe to our ▶️ YouTube channel 🔴 for the latest videos, updates, and tips. The Blank Multiplication Table on Math‑Only‑Math is a helpful and printable learning tool for students to practice multiplication facts from 1 to 10. This blank times table chart …

The article “Funding climate projects: our financial model can better illustrate long-term value“, by Dorje Brody, is published today (Tuesday 24 February) in The Conversation (link here). As a mathematician researching in finance, Dorje shows how to use a financial …

LLMs don’t—and can’t—do everything. What they do is very impressive—and useful. It’s broad. And in many ways it’s human-like. But it’s not precise. And in the end it’s not about deep computation. So how can we supplement LLM foundation models? …

Subscribe to our ▶️ YouTube channel 🔴 for the latest videos, updates, and tips. In worksheet on measurement we will solve different types of questions on measurement of length, conversion of length, addition and subtraction of length, word problems on addition of …

Emir Ahmed, a final-year undergraduate in mathematics, was on placement last year at the National Physical Laboratory in Teddington, supervised at NPL by Dr Ciaran Bench. A faculty-wide contest was held for the best placement student last year, and Emir …

This paper introduces a framework for finite non-cooperative games where each player faces a globally uncertain parameter with no common prior. Every player chooses both a mixed strategy and projects an emergent subjective prior to the uncertain parameters. We define …