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 ...

To understand how driverless vehicles can navigate the complexities of the road, researchers often use game theory — mathematical models representing the way rational agents behave strategically to ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...