Industries, particularly high tech, may be waiting for the U.S. Supreme Court decision, expected this coming spring, in the Bilski case to decide some fundamental questions of when you can patent ...

In a world dominated by algorithms, it's common to associate them with a negative bias. Mathematician Clara Grima defends ...

Verhoeff developed an even more comprehensive algorithm that, in addition to detecting all of the same typos as Luhn’s algorithm, also catches 09/90 transpositions, as well as more exotic slipups.

Researchers at tech giant IBM ($IBM) have developed a new quantum algorithm that shows a notable speed advantage over the ...

It's a plot device beloved by science fiction: our entire universe might be a simulation running on some advanced ...

In this interview, mathematical siblings Gregory and David Chudnovsky, who seem to almost think with one mind, banter about numbers theory, advanced computing, and the importance and aesthetics of ...

The District Court for the Northern District of Ohio dismissed Cybergenetics Corp.’s infringement suit after determining that the asserted claims—which recite mathematical algorithms for analyzing ...

Want to know how to get your dream job or the perfect mate? Just do the math. You may have thought you'd never need math once you got out of school, but it's funny how the principals of math still ...