Two IBM researchers, with the assistance of the present bloggers (Bailey and Borwein), have calculated binary digits of pi-squared beginning at the 60 trillionth binary digit. In addition, they calculated ternary (base-3) digits of pi-squared, beginning at the 60 trillionth digit, and binary digits of Catalan’s constant, beginning at the 120 trillionth digit. Other researchers . . . → Read More: Researchers compute 60 trillionth binary digit of pi-squared
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A Museum of Mathematics is slated to open in New York City in the fall of 2012. This organization was formed in 2009 by Glen Whitney, formerly the algorithm manager for the $15 billion hedge fund firm Renaissance Technologies. Renaissance was founded by James Simons, who, like Whitney, was previously a professor of mathematics . . . → Read More: Museum of Mathematics to be opened in NYC John Milnor, the American mathematician known for his discovery of exotic hyperspheres, has been awarded the 2011 Abel Prize by the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters. The Abel Prize, which is accompanied by a cash award of USD$1 million, is generally regarded as the equivalent of the Nobel Prize in the field of mathematics. . . . → Read More: Milnor wins 2011 Abel prize It’s official: IBM’s “Watson” computer system has defeated two of the brightest minds that our species could put forward for battle, namely legendary Jeopardy! champs Ken Jennings and Brad Rutter. Ken Jennings, recognizing that Watson had an insurmountable lead heading into Final Jeopardy (the final question of the match), summed up the situation by writing . . . → Read More: IBM’s “Watson” victorious: Our new computer overlords? Yes, the title is a bit strong, but there is no gentle way to say it: Jeopardy! champs Jennings and Rutter were destroyed by the IBM “Watson” computer system in today’s “Double Jeopardy” round. When the final totals were tallied after the “Final Jeopardy” question, Watson had $35,734, versus $10,400 for Brad Rutter and $4,800 . . . → Read More: Watson creams Jennings and Rutter in second day of Jeopardy! Last night (in North America), the long-awaited match between IBM’s “Watson” question-answering computer system and legendary Jeopardy! champs Ken Jennings and Brad Rutter began. A good part of this first program was devoted to an overview of the Watson system and its development, so only a few minutes were devoted to actual competition. However, even . . . → Read More: After first day on Jeopardy!, Watson is tied for lead The long-awaited day of reckoning has arrived for IBM’s Jeopardy!-playing computer named “Watson”. Beginning tonight (14 Feb 2011) in North America, Watson will compete on the quiz show Jeopardy! against legendary champs Ken Jennings and Brad Rutter. Ken Jennings broke an all-time Jeopardy! record with 74 consecutive wins in 2004. Brad Rutter has never . . . → Read More: IBM’s Watson system starts Jeopardy! competition today Researchers from Emory University, the University of Wisconsin Madison, Yale, and the Technical University of Darmstadt in Germany have discovered that partition numbers behave like fractals, possessing an infinitely-repeating structure. The partition number P(N) of an integer N is the number of distinct ways in which N can be written as a sum of positive . . . → Read More: Researchers find fractal structure to partition function As we mentioned in an earlier Blog, the US television show Jeopardy! has agreed to host a showdown between a new question-answering computer system developed by IBM and two former Jeopardy! champions. The new system, named “Watson” by IBM, accepts input in the form of natural English inquiries, and then responds with its best determination . . . → Read More: IBM’s Watson Defeats Jeopardy champs in trial round A selection of papers authored (or co-authored) by Jonathan Borwein and Peter Borwein has been published by PSIpress. The selection includes several papers of significant historical interest: Jonathan Borwein and Peter Borwein, Experimental and computational mathematics: Selected writings, PSIpress, Portland, OR, 2010. Here is a brief synopsis, from the publisher’s website: A quiet revolution in . . . → Read More: Selected papers of Jonathan Borwein and Peter Borwein |
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