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Abstract: An improved three-dimensional simplex interpolation (SI) method is proposed to accelerate the calculation of the Ewald series representation for homogeneous media doubly periodic Green's ...

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The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. In 1939, upon arriving late to his statistics course at UC Berkeley, George Dantzig—a first-year graduate student—copied two problems ...

Four years ago, I was given a fantastic opportunity to be a math coach for a primary years program. But when I started, there was no framework to work within, no script to follow. I was starting from ...

Why the challenge of truly representative democracy is so complex. Moon Duchin, who leads the University of Chicago’s Data and Democracy Research Initiative, explores how math can help solve ...

When Pope Francis died in April on Easter Monday, the news triggered not only an outpouring of mourners but also a centuries-old tradition shrouded in secrecy: the papal conclave. Two weeks later 133 ...

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ABSTRACT: An orthoscheme or Pythagorean simplex is a solid in n-dimensional Euclidean space whose faces are right triangles. In 1956, Hadwiger asked whether an n-dimensional general (not necessarily ...