Discover how the Dutch Book Theorem reveals profit opportunities in betting and finance when probabilities are misjudged.
For four decades, a quiet boundary in pure mathematics kept a powerful theorem locked inside the safe world of finite quantities. Now a new result known as Sebestyen’s theorem has pushed that boundary ...
I have a new theory. I should point out that it is not a theorem. You may wonder what the difference between a theory and a theorem is. You probably don't wonder, but just in case you do I am going to ...
Researchers have used a 350-year-old theorem to better understand the strange nature of light. The team took a theorem used for describing pendulums and substituted the brightness of light in for what ...
Use Pythagoras’ theorem to show a triangle is right-angled or to find one side of a right-angled triangle when two sides are known. Make sure you are confident at substituting into and manipulating ...
Physicists have long relied on elegant theorems to connect the abstract math of quantum theory with the tangible behavior of ...