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Math After COVID-19
...now deserted. Mathematicians rely on face-to-face interaction and close communication to produce new mathematics. With social distancing in place, that’s not really possible. Like most math conferences, Oberwolfach’s weekly retreats...
New Earthquake Math Predicts How Destructive They’ll Be
The “pinball” model of a slipping fault line borrows from the mathematics of avalanches. When a fault slips, it unleashes a torrent of seismic waves, not all of them alike....
John Conway Solved Mathematical Problems With His Bare Hands
The legendary mathematician, who died on April 11, was curious, colorful and one of the greatest problem-solvers of his generation. In modern mathematics, many of the biggest advances are great...
The Computer Scientist Who Can’t Stop Telling Stories
...were trying to achieve. The math was there to capture the design in a quantitative way. With mathematics, I put little dials on everything. I could say the letter “A”...
Moon Duchin on Fair Voting and Random Walks
...a lot of mathematicians feel, wow, there is so much to do with math. The whole world feels increasingly mathematical, so I think you’ve given us just a magnificent case...
Does Time Really Flow? New Clues Come From a Century-Old Approach to Math.
...there according to the math.’ “But it depends, now, which math,” he continued. “Classical math, there is something. In intuitionist math, no. There is nothing.” The electron is on the...
‘Amazing’ Math Bridge Extended Beyond Fermat’s Last Theorem
Mathematicians have figured out how to expand the reach of a mysterious bridge connecting two distant continents in the mathematical world. When Andrew Wiles proved Fermat’s Last Theorem in the...
Brian Keating’s Quest for the Origin of the Universe
...to build a tiny (equals cheap) telescope to detect this pattern of the aftershocks, the gravitational aftermath of inflation. Strogatz: The BICEP2 team thought that it saw a fantastically strong...
Mathematics as a Team Sport
...By highlighting these problems, Powell was getting at maybe the biggest difference between the way mathematicians and non-mathematicians see the subject. To the latter group, mathematics feels settled. “What else...