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This U.S. Olympiad Coach Has a Unique Approach to Math
Po-Shen Loh discusses his approach to coaching the United States International Mathematical Olympiad team and reveals what he believes to be the major problem with math education. Emily Buder/Quanta Magazine;...
The Coach Who Led the U.S. Math Team Back to the Top
Po-Shen Loh has harnessed his competitive impulses and iconoclastic tendencies to reinvigorate the U.S. Math Olympiad program. Po-Shen Loh has resurrected the United States International Mathematical Olympiad team, leading it...
The NASA Engineer Who’s a Mathematician at Heart
...Langley Research Center. However, she soon discovered that her role as a mathematician was limited to performing time-consuming calculations by hand. To do the creative mathematical work she craved, Darden...
Mathematicians Resurrect Hilbert’s 13th Problem
...a whole array, this whole beautiful web of math.” The Roots of the Matter Mathematicians have been probing polynomials for as long as math has been around. Stone tablets carved...
2020’s Biggest Breakthroughs in Math and Computer Science
For mathematicians and computer scientists, 2020 was full of discipline-spanning discoveries and celebrations of creativity. Emily Buder/Quanta Magazine; Rui Braz and Christiaan Endeman for Quanta Magazine...
How I Learned to Love and Fear the Riemann Hypothesis
...the most important and notorious unsolved problem in all of mathematics — from the late, great Eli Stein, a world-renowned mathematician at Princeton University. I was very fortunate that Professor...
Our Favorite Comments of the Year
...to any sufficiently specific development in pure mathematics: River Creature As a non-mathematician person, what are the practical applications of this proof? The math is interesting to see but for...
The Year in Math and Computer Science
Even as mathematicians and computer scientists proved big results in computational complexity, number theory and geometry, computers proved themselves increasingly indispensable in mathematics. For mathematicians and computer scientists, 2020 was...
A Mathematician’s Unanticipated Journey Through the Physical World
Lauren Williams has charted an adventurous mathematical career out of the pieces of a fundamental object called the positive Grassmannian. The outline of Lauren Williams’ mathematical career was present very...