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A startling milestone has been reached in Florida's war against the invasive Burmese pythons eating their way across the Everglades. The Conservancy of Southwest Florida reports it has captured and ...

In “The Once and Future World Order,” by Amitav Acharya, and “The Golden Road,” by William Dalrymple, our best hope might be that history repeats itself. A statue of the Buddha in Kamakura, ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Calculus is a powerful mathematical tool. But for hundreds of years after its invention in the 17th century, it stood on a shaky ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract A version of the Rao-Blackwell theorem is shown to apply to most, but not all, stereological sampling designs. Estimators based on random test ...

In the late 19th century, Karl Weierstrass invented a fractal-like function that was decried as nothing less than a “deplorable evil.” In time, it would transform the foundations of mathematics.

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Despite miles of ground covered as we drove through the Everglades under the cover of darkness, it was impossible to ignore the fact that we hadn’t spotted a single mammal. The expansive wetlands in ...

Python is the first programming language to climb to an 18% rating since Java, which rated 18% nearly eight years ago. Python has scored its highest rating ever, 18.04%, in Tiobe’s index of ...

A woman was found dead inside the belly of a snake after it swallowed her whole in central Indonesia last week, police said, the second python killing in the province in a month. Siriati, 36, had gone ...