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The Mystery at the Heart of Physics That Only Math Can Solve
...fields). But the explanatory power of QFT comes at a high mathematical cost. “Quantum field theories are by far the most complicated objects in mathematics, to the point where mathematicians...
A Number Theorist Who Connects Math to Other Creative Pursuits
Jordan Ellenberg enjoys studying — and writing about — the mathematics underlying everyday phenomena. “There are many different pathways into mathematics,” said Jordan Ellenberg, a mathematician at the University of...
New Black Hole Math Closes Cosmic Blind Spot
A mathematical shortcut for analyzing black hole collisions works even in cases where it shouldn’t. As astronomers use it to search for new classes of hidden black holes, others wonder:...
How to Solve Equations That Are Stubborn as a Goat
Math teachers have stymied students for hundreds of years by sticking goats in strangely shaped fields. Learn why one grazing goat problem has stumped mathematicians for more than a century....
Amie Wilkinson Sees the Dynamic Chaos in Puff Pastry
...10-chain. I don’t know. Well, I mean, that’s a huge component of what I do as a mathematician. Not all pure mathematicians think that way, but that’s what sets me...
Emery Brown and the Truth About Anesthesia
...Exactly. Strogatz: But I think it would be unclear to many listeners. What does math have to do with the brain, what does math have to do with anesthesia? I...
The Puzzling Power of Simple Arithmetic
...sort of thing that will get you hooked on mathematics. I daresay that if such examples of “guided discovery” were a regular part of math education at the lower and...
Trachette Jackson Fights Cancer With Math
...need to major in math.” And he sort of invited me to major in math, well, kinda ordered me to major in math, but that was a decision that changed...
Rediet Abebe on Using Algorithms for Social Justice
...letters from some of the world’s top mathematicians saying what a tremendous talent she was in abstract math. And curiously — and for me very exciting — she wanted to...