Not so long ago, received wisdom in the psychology of trading and investing in financial markets said that the key to success was consistency. Once you found your probabilistic “edge” in markets, you ...

CHICAGO—A new twist on the ancient board game Go may clarify the complicated mathematics behind games like chess, suggests research from the mathematical field known as combinatorial game theory.

Graph domination games represent a vibrant area of combinatorial game theory wherein two opponents engage in a strategic contest on the vertices of a graph. In the standard format, one player, known ...

Sign up for The Media Today, CJR’s daily newsletter. So you may have heard of Google Wave, the pioneering personal communication and collaboration tool that is ...

On April 11, 2020, John Horton Conway died of COVID-19 at the age of 82 in New Brunswick, N.J. The areas of research covered by this remarkable mathematician included group theory, node theory, ...