Grade school math students are likely familiar with teachers admonishing them not to just guess the answer to a problem. But a new proof establishes that, in fact, the right kind of guessing is ...

We deal with real preconditioned interval linear systems of equations. We present a new operator, which generalizes the interval Gauss–Seidel operator. Also, based on the new operator and properties ...

Sometimes, it’s easy for a computer to predict the future. Simple phenomena, such as how sap flows down a tree trunk, are straightforward and can be captured in a few lines of code using what ...

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In the world of computing, many breakthroughs and innovations mention ways to make the silicon brains in our machines more like the biological brains in our bodies. In fact, there’s a whole field ...