The development of humans and other animals unfolds gradually over time, with cells taking on specific roles and functions ...

Groundbreaking Black mathematician Gladys West, who helped develop the algorithms behind GPS, died Jan. 17 at age 95. NPR's Scott Simon talks to Marvin Jackson, who co-wrote West's memoir.

This block sorts the elements of the input vector using the quicksort algorithm as described in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quicksort Quicksort is the world's most ...

Abstract: In many real-world applications, sorting is a crucial data structure. Sorting algorithms are methods for rearranging a collection of unsorted items into a desired format or order. A lot of ...

Description: Generates a list of random integers within a specified range. This distribution is useful for testing sorting algorithms under average, everyday conditions where the input order is ...

Lottery tickets purchased repeatedly in the same small Texas town led to four separate wins and nearly $21 million in total payouts. State officials verified each claim, but the streak stood out ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. All of modern mathematics is built on the foundation of set theory, the study of how to organize abstract collections of objects. But in ...