Isaac Asimov excelled at predicting the future. In one of his early science fiction stories, he introduced pocket calculators decades before you could buy them at Radio Shack. In a later book, he ...

At first glance, it seems strange to think that math used for describing business competition, fighting terrorists and playing poker would also have anything to do with the origin of life. But you ...

Using math and game theory to explain decision making is nothing new. But what's really stunning is that game theory can give some insight into how morality may have "evolved." Business Insider ...

Let the physical basis of a social economy be given— or, to take a broader view of the matter, of a society. According to all tradition and experience human beings have a characteristic way of ...

I SAW the film A Beautiful Mind on an aeroplane, dubbed into German with subtitles in Spanish. Though I struggled to make sense of it, it was clear this wasn’t a detailed exposition of the ...

The title capitalizes on the popularity of the Oscar-winning movie about Nobel Prize–winning mathematician John Nash. But this is a serious and adroit look at a branch of mathematics, influenced by ...