In 1936, a few years before the start of the Second World War, Theodore Wright published an article claiming that the cost of building an airplane decreased predictably with the cumulative number of p...

The Random K-Satisfiability Problem, consisting in verifying the existence of an assignment of N Boolean variables that satisfy a set of M=alpha N random logical clauses containing K variables each, i...

Par Maxime Sbaihi & Charles Dennery

We provide a generic method to find full dynamical solutions to binary decision models with interactions. In these models, agents follow a stochastic evolution where they must choose between two possi...

Schrödinger’s ants: a continuous description of Kirman’s recruitment model, Moran, José, Fosset, Antoine, Benzaquen, Michael, Bouchaud, Jean-Philippe

Scientists often re-invent things that were long known. Here we review these activities as related to the mechanism of producing power law distributions, originally proposed in 1922 by Yule to explain...

Marine Le Pen has been banned from running for office for five years. The sentence applies the law as written, but it turns her embezzlement conviction into a propaganda coup for her party.