David Conlon and Asaf Ferber have raised the lower bound for multicolor “Ramsey numbers,” which quantify how big graphs can get before patterns inevitably emerge. “There is no absolute randomness in ...

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Now that pandemic restrictions are easing up, people are getting together again. But it’s been a while, so if you and your friends need some help breaking the ice, here’s a mathematical party game you ...

Data is de rigueur these days. We all know we need it, every line of work uses it, each of us is part of it, many of us interact with it, but fewer know how to get it or what to do with it once we ...

Jacob Holm was flipping through proofs from an October 2019 research paper he and colleague Eva Rotenberg—an associate professor in the department of applied mathematics and computer science at the ...

A question in the Madhyamik mathematics paper on Thursday led to confusion among candidates as they were asked to draw a graph but no graph sheet was handed out. Representative image KOLKATA: A ...