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The Tricky Math of Herd Immunity for COVID-19
Herd immunity differs from place to place, and many factors influence how it’s calculated. While much about the COVID-19 pandemic remains uncertain, we know how it will likely end: when...
James Maynard Solves the Hardest Easy Math Problems
James Maynard talks about why he’s obsessed with prime numbers. Tom Medwell and Jennifer Hsu for Quanta Magazine...
In a Single Measure, Invariants Capture the Essence of Math Objects
...of many areas of mathematics, extracting essential features of mathematical objects and detecting when two objects are fundamentally different from each other. As the name suggests, an invariant is an...
In Mathematics, It Often Takes a Good Map to Find Answers
...first. Mathematicians are often in the same situation as da Vinci: They have big dreams, but mathematical knowledge may not be advanced enough to fulfill them. Depending on who you...
Symbolic Mathematics Finally Yields to Neural Networks
...majored in math and statistics,” said Charton, who studies applications of AI to mathematics. “Math was our original language.” As a result, Lample and Charton’s program could produce precise solutions...
Graduate Student Solves Decades-Old Conway Knot Problem
...wrote in an email. When she first started studying mathematics in college, she didn’t stand out as a “standard golden child math prodigy,” said Elisenda Grigsby, one of Piccirillo’s professors...
New Math Proves That a Special Kind of Space-Time Is Unstable
...waves gradually diminish, or will they build into a tsunami? In 1986, a mathematician proved that de Sitter space-time is stable. A pair of mathematicians did the same for Minkowski...
To Win This Numbers Game, Learn to Avoid Math Patterns
Sizing up patternless sets is hard, so mathematicians rely on simple bounds to help answer their questions. Here’s a simple number game to play on a rainy day, or while...
What Goes On in a Proton? Quark Math Still Conflicts With Experiments.
...their theory predicts and thus less able to interpret signs of new, unpredicted particles or effects. To understand what makes quarks and gluons such mathematical scofflaws, consider how much mathematical...