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Mathematician wins 2025 Abel prize for tools to solve tricky equations
Masaki Kashiwara has won the 2025 Abel prize, seen by some as the Nobel of mathematics, for his contributions to algebraic ...
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Researchers unlock new potential in Newton’s method, 300 years after its creation
The trio proved their modified version of Taylor expansion still converges to the true minimum, regardless of the number of ...
Understanding How Cryptographic Hash Functions Work
A cryptographic hash function is a mathematical algorithm that takes an input (or 'message') and returns a fixed-length ...