Let T be a tournament, T' obtained by flipping arc i->j to j->i. Define the swap map on Hamiltonian paths: for a T-path pi = (v_1,...,v_{a-1}, i, j, v_{a+2},...,v_n ...

Alicia Garcia-Herrero, Asia-Pacific Chief Economist at Natixis, discusses China's K-shaped economic growth. She argues that the economic development divergence in China is not as bad as that of South ...

A week after OpenAI made headlines with an A.I.-generated proof, a new “declaration” by 16 experts raises concerns that the technology threatens math as a discipline. By Siobhan Roberts Recently there ...

Investing.com --China's central bank is moving to tighten discipline across the nation's financial landscape, explicitly calling out "involution-style", or excessively distorted competition, as a ...

This was the most philosophical line I heard from a ride-hailing driver during my trip to Dali before the Spring Festival. He said that it lightly, with a touch of self-mockery, but I could hear the ...

Cellular senescence is an evolutionarily conserved stress response that contributes to tissue repair and tumor suppression, yet its accumulation is also linked to aging and disease. Whether ...

Simply sign up to the Global Economy myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. You know the China story. Population? Huge. Economy? Very huge. Trade surpluses? Really huge. Maybe too huge. Even ...

China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) convened a symposium with photovoltaic (PV) industry entrepreneurs on Wednesday, listening to opinions and suggestions from key ...

As the period covered by China’s next five-year plan begins, the official newspaper of the country’s ruling Communist Party urged local governments to curb the herd behaviour that could fuel ...

THE term “involution” or curling inward became a common slang in China in the 2020s, to reflect excessive competition in social and economic life, where students, workers and even business leaders ...