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One Man’s Mission to Unveil Math’s Beauty
Richard Rusczyk, founder of Art of Problem Solving, discusses how to bring out the joy, creativity and beauty in math. Photo by Philip Cheung for Quanta Magazine; Video by Emily...
The AI Researcher Giving Her Field Its Bitter Medicine
...would point it out and say, “No, don’t accept this.” That really helped. Did anything else get you excited about math and science? Before high school all the math that...
Old Problem About Mathematical Curves Falls to Young Couple
...inspire developments in cryptography, digital storage and other areas well beyond pure mathematics. Still, Vakil said, it’s not enough to understand interpolation for most curves. Mathematicians want to know it...
Why and How Do We Dream?
...Steven Strogatz (00:03): I’m Steve Strogatz, and this is The Joy of Why, a podcast from Quanta Magazine that takes you into some of the biggest unanswered questions in math...
What Is Quantum Field Theory and Why Is It Incomplete?
...our pure mathematician friends, because our pure mathematician friends are smart people, and we think that we have this mathematical theory. But they don’t understand what we’re talking about. And...
Why Do We Get Old, and Can Aging Be Reversed?
...and this is The Joy of Why podcast from Quanta Magazine that takes you into some of the biggest unanswered questions in science and math today. In this episode, we’re...
How Can Infinitely Many Primes Be Infinitely Far Apart?
...mathematician. Maynard likes math questions that “are simple enough to explain to a high school student but hard enough to stump mathematicians for centuries,” Quanta reported, and one of those...
How Do Mathematicians Know Their Proofs Are Correct?
What makes a proof stronger than a guess? What does evidence look like in the realm of mathematical abstraction? Hear the mathematician Melanie Matchett Wood explain how probability helps to...
The Scientist Who Developed a New Way to Understand Communication
...like a nail. Mark developed and knows a theory of computer science — and it’s a pretty big hammer.” A Mathematical Miracle The son of a mathematician mother and a...