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Abstract: Accurate prediction of the magnetic field is an essential guideline for permanent magnetic gear design and optimization. The existing magnetic field calculation methods are divided into 2-D ...

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Numbers like pi, e and phi often turn up in unexpected places in science and mathematics. Pascal's triangle and the Fibonacci sequence also seem inexplicably widespread in nature. Then there's the ...

Dr Jin Cheng (Jess Hong) pulls a Sir Isaac Newton move in the VR game in "3 Body Problem." Credit: Netflix If you're the type of person who yells "wey-oh!" if someone in a TV show says the name of the ...

In October 2024 I attended a workshop at Harvard University where mathematicians talked through the uses of artificial intelligence in their field. Most were less worried about the future of math than ...

Highlights of Python 3.15, now available in beta, include lazy imports, faster JITs, better error messages, and smarter profiling. The first full beta of Python 3.15 ...

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David E. Dunning explores how mathematical notation is a social, world-building technology. It’s natural to think of math as being fundamentally abstract. Whether it’s invented or discovered, its ...

Game developers didn’t have it easy in the 1990s. Because they had extremely limited computing power, they had to write their code as efficiently as possible. Consider the first-person shooter Quake ...

Computers are extremely good with numbers, but they haven’t gotten many human mathematicians fired. Until recently, they could barely hold their own in high school-level math competitions. But now ...