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[:es]How Shannon Entropy Imposes Fundamental Limits on Communication[:]
What’s a message, really? Claude Shannon recognized that the elemental ingredient is surprise.
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[:es]How Shannon Entropy Imposes Fundamental Limits on Communication[:]
What’s a message, really? Claude Shannon recognized that the elemental ingredient is surprise.
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[:es]How Isaac Newton Discovered the Binomial Power Series[:]
Rethinking questions and chasing patterns led Newton to find the connection between curves and infinite sums.
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[:es]How Isaac Newton Discovered the Binomial Power Series[:]
Rethinking questions and chasing patterns led Newton to find the connection between curves and infinite sums.
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[:es]How Isaac Newton Discovered the Binomial Power Series[:]
Rethinking questions and chasing patterns led Newton to find the connection between curves and infinite sums.
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[:es]Hidden Chaos Found to Lurk in Ecosystems[:]
New research finds that chaos plays a bigger role in population dynamics than decades of ecological data seemed to suggest.
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[:es]Computer Science Proof Unveils Unexpected Form of Entanglement[:]
Three computer scientists have posted a proof of the NLTS conjecture, showing that systems of entangled particles can remain difficult to analyze even away from extremes.
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[:es]Mass and Angular Momentum, Left Ambiguous by Einstein, Get Defined[:]
Surprising as it may sound, 107 years after the introduction of general relativity, the meanings of basic concepts are still being worked out.
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[:es]Can Computers Be Mathematicians?[:]
Artificial intelligence has bested humans at problem-solving challenges like chess and Go. Is mathematics research next? Steven Strogatz speaks with mathematician Kevin Buzzard to learn about the effort to translate […]