Van Fraassen and others have urged that judgements of explanations are relative to why-questions; explanations should be considered good in so far as they effectively answer why-questions. In this ...

Mathematics continues to serve as a fundamental language through which scientific phenomena are deciphered and understood. Its ability to provide models that not only describe but also explain ...

Pure mathematics can play an indispensable role explaining empirical phenomena if recent accounts of insect evolution are correct. In particular, the prime life cycles of cicadas and the geometric ...

Although the narrative in the study is developed as a history of the field, Evelyn Fox Keller discusses a problem of the philosophy of science in her quest of ‘making sense of life.’ The author does ...

Troy, N.Y. - A team of researchers, led by Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute professor Yuri Lvov, has found an elegant explanation for the long-standing Fermi-Pasta-Ulam (FPU) problem, first proposed ...

Here’s a really interesting mathematical explanation on how the “catch a dollar” trick works. You know the trick: a person holds a bill vertically and says you can keep the bill if you can catch the ...

Scientists have found an elegant explanation for the long-standing Fermi-Pasta-Ulam (FPU) problem, first proposed in 1953, investigated with one of the world’s first digital computers, and now ...

Augmented Math: This project introduces a machine learning-based tool that augments static math textbooks with interactive AR explanations, without requiring programming. Using OCR and computer vision ...