This year’s Abel prize, an annual mathematics lifetime-achievement award, bestowed by the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters and modeled on the Nobel Prize, has been given to Gerd Faltings, a ...

Gerd Faltings proved a conjecture that had been unsolved for six decades, using connections between numbers and geometry.

Austrian physicist Erwin Schrödinger developed quantum theory’s wave equation, which describes quantum systems as waves that ...

Physics is the search for and application of rules that can help us understand and predict the world around us. Central to physics are ideas such as energy, mass, particles and waves. Physics attempts ...

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Abstract: In recent years, reinforcement learning (RL) becomes a promising technique for solving combinatorial optimization (CO) problems. The advantage of RL for solving CO problems is its powerful ...