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Artificial intelligence is mastering the kinds of projects that have long helped to build the careers of young mathematicians. What does that mean for their future? Credit...Illustrations by Yoshi ...

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Scientists at Fudan University, Peking University, and the Shanghai Academy of AI for Science (SAIS) used an artificial intelligence system called Packing Star to solve a 300-year-old maths problem ...

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Plant cells face a trade-off between capturing enough light for photosynthesis and avoiding damage from too much sunlight. Their adaptation mechanism includes active rearrangements of disk-shaped ...

How bees, beer cans and big data all solve the same problem: not enough space. By Steven Strogatz Photo illustrations by Jens Mortensen Each installment of “Math, Revealed” starts with an object, ...

The last time I packed for a trip was for a three-day vacation in Connecticut. Wanting my luggage to be as lightweight as possible, I crammed everything—winter clothes, a book, a bag of toiletries, my ...

In the Dynamic Bin Packing problem, \(n\) items arrive and depart the system in an online manner, and the goal is to maintain a good packing throughout. We consider the objective of minimizing the ...

Abstract: The 0-1 Knapsack Problem (KP) and Bin Packing Problem (BPP) are NP-hard combinatorial optimization challenges often tackled using metaheuristics. Both problems have prominent utilization in ...