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Where every known method of divination seemed to fail, a group of researchers at Bocconi University in Milan found a hint in a decades-old mathematical technique, a cousin of the algorithm that made ...

The math of even the simplest ocean waves is notoriously uncooperative. A team of Italian mathematicians has made major advances toward understanding it.

In "Mapmatics," a mathematician tells the stories of how math helps us track epidemics, map the seafloor, and plot a complex delivery route.