Bucking the “ivory tower” stereotype, particle theorists dive into Large Hadron Collider experimental searches and come up with a new way to look at the data. In September 2010, about 100 theoretical ...

The structure of a data layout may be usefully described in terms of its symmetries, i.e. transformations which do not affect attitudes to the data. Interesting null hypotheses may be considered as ...

The single chirality of biological molecules has fascinated scientists and laymen alike since Pasteur’s first painstaking separation of the enantiomorphic crystals of a tartrate salt over 150 years ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract For square contingency tables with ordered categories, the conditional symmetry (CS) model is decomposed into the quasi-odds symmetry (QOS) ...

To begin to understand what mathematicians and physicists see in the abstract structures of symmetries, let’s start with a familiar shape. We are fond of saying things are symmetric, but what does ...