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An Applied Mathematician With an Unexpected Toolbox
...are certain things that a pure mathematician, I think, ought to know in applied math. And applied mathematicians have a lot to gain, frankly speaking, by increasing their awareness of...
To Teach Computers Math, Researchers Merge AI Approaches
...systems to do math. The first paper describes teaching an LLM to translate ordinary math statements into formal code that a computer can run and check. The second trained an...
The Joy of Asking About Infinity, Jellyfish and the End of the Universe
...mathematician Eugenia Cheng went on a tangent in her episode on category theory. To illustrate how it can apply broadly as a way of thinking beyond mathematics and physics, she...
The Computer Scientist Who Finds Life Lessons in Games
...doing OK in math, and he asked me whether I wanted to do math. I said no. [Laughs.] And then he said, “You know, there’s a new discipline called computer...
The Basic Algebra Behind Secret Codes and Space Communication
...to be able to identify and correct them without wasting precious time and energy. That’s where math comes in. Mathematicians have invented ingenious ways to transmit and store information. One...
Google Researcher, Long Out of Math, Cracks Devilish Problem About Sets
Google Researcher, Long Out of Math, Cracks Problem About Sets On nights and weekends, Justin Gilmer attacked an old question in pure math using the tools of information theory. In...
The Year in Math
...going on.” Award-Winning Mathematics Every four years, the International Mathematical Union awards a gold coin with the head of Archimedes engraved on it to up to four mathematicians younger...
2022’s Biggest Breakthroughs in Math
In 2022, mathematicians solved a centuries-old geometry question, proved the best way to minimize the surface area of clusters of up to five bubbles and proved a sweeping statement about...
From Systems in Motion, Infinite Patterns Appear
Mathematicians are finding inevitable structures in sufficiently large sets of integers. In December 1977, a revolutionary paper quietly appeared in the Journal d’Analyse Mathématique, a specialty mathematics journal. The author,...