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David Hilbert (/ˈhɪlbərt/; German: [ˈdaːvɪt ˈhɪlbɐt]; 23 January 1862 – 14 February 1943) was a German mathematician and one of the most influential mathematicians...

In mathematical analysis, the smoothness of a function is a property measured by the number, called differentiability class, of continuous derivatives...

In mathematics, a Markov decision process (MDP) is a discrete-time stochastic control process. It provides a mathematical framework for modeling decision...

A scale-free network is a network whose degree distribution follows a power law, at least asymptotically. That is, the fraction P(k) of nodes in the network...

Jennifer Tour Chayes is dean of the college of computing, data science, and society at the University of California, Berkeley. Before joining Berkeley...

In abstract algebra, a matrix ring is a set of matrices with entries in a ring R that form a ring under matrix addition and matrix multiplication. The...

A time/memory/data tradeoff attack is a type of cryptographic attack where an attacker tries to achieve a situation similar to the space–time tradeoff...

Ramanujan summation is a technique invented by the mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan for assigning a value to divergent infinite series. Although the Ramanujan...

In mathematics, the Poincaré–Hopf theorem (also known as the Poincaré–Hopf index formula, Poincaré–Hopf index theorem, or Hopf index theorem) is an important...

The Will Rogers phenomenon, also rarely called the Okie paradox, is when moving an observation from one group to another increases the average of both...

In mathematics, particularly measure theory, a 𝜎-ideal, or sigma ideal, of a σ-algebra (𝜎, read "sigma") is a subset with certain desirable closure properties...

The information ratio measures and compares the active return of an investment (e.g., a security or portfolio) compared to a benchmark index relative to...

In combinatorial optimization, Lin–Kernighan is one of the best heuristics for solving the symmetric travelling salesman problem.[citation needed] It belongs...

Claudine Monteil (born 1949) is a French writer, women's rights specialist, historian, and a former French diplomat. Monteil's mother, Josiane Serre, was...

Guido Mislin (born April 13, 1941 in Basel) is a Swiss mathematician, academic and researcher. He is a Professor Emeritus of Mathematics at ETH Zurich...