Science

News from the arXiv: a new section has been created to host preprints about Quantitative Finance. The section (as stated in the press release) intends to fix a problem with existing pre-print … ...

Stochastic differential equations (SDEs) are basically inhomogenous ordinary differential equations that depend on an external stochastic process. ...

Percentage of active users in the Internet 2.0 is tiny. Fractions go from ...

A wonderful quote about the nature of Game Theory Game theory is no doubt wonderful for telling stories. However, it flunks the main test of any scientific theory: The ability to make empirically … ...

November was a rather sad month in the world of stochastic differential equations. In the 26th we were suppose to be celebrating the birth of one of the best mathematicians in history, Norbert … ...

While the individual man is an insoluble puzzle, in the aggregate he becomes a mathematical certainty. You can, for example, never foretell what any one man will do, but you can say with precision … ...

A picture is worth a thousand lines of equations ...

Hola a todos. Este es mi primer post en español en este blog (aunque incluyo la traducción al inglés más abajo). Y lo hago para anunciar que soy el editor desde el número de Diciembre de la sección … ...

It is always amazing to browse through YouTube, specially if you are looking for science material. Here is an example of superconductivity: take a superconductor and a magnet at room temperature. … ...

Two New York newspapers (The New York Times and the New Yorker) are running stories about whether string theory is a theory of anything or not. Specifically, both articles are reviews of a couple of … ...