Researchers used algebra and geometry together to solve an old random walk problem. Random walk ideas have informed everything from biology to video games. This team identified a key geometry idea ...
Osaka, Japan - Researchers at the Center for Quantum Information and Quantum Biology at Osaka University used trapped ions to demonstrate the spreading of vibrational quanta as part of a quantum ...
Advances in Applied Probability, Vol. 41, No. 2 (JUNE 2009), pp. 452-468 (17 pages) In this article we analyse the behaviour of the extremes of a random walk in a random scenery. The random walk is ...
More than 100 years ago Hungarian-born mathematician George Pólya found himself trapped in a loop of social awkwardness. A professor at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, he enjoyed ...