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A Mathematician Whose Only Constant Is Change
Amie Wilkinson searches for exotic examples of the mathematical structures that describe change. Amie Wilkinson is an explorer. Instead of seeking uncharted land, she’s after undiscovered mathematical worlds — complex...
Quantum Leaps, Long Assumed to Be Instantaneous, Take Time
...began to develop a mathematical theory of these quantum phenomena in the 1920s. Heisenberg’s quantum mechanics enumerated all the allowed quantum states, and implicitly assumed that jumps between them are...
How Geometry, Data and Neighbors Predict Your Favorite Movies
A little high school geometry can help you understand the basic math behind movie recommendation engines. Adrienne is a Marvel movie fanatic: Her favorite films all involve the Hulk, Thor...
The Hidden Heroines of Chaos
...degree in math, seeking any sort of math-related job in the Boston area, eager and able to learn. She interviewed with a woman who ran the LGP-30 in the nuclear...
In Ecology Studies and Selfless Ants, He Finds Hope for the Future
...over those that are just pleasing. Your collaboration with Martin Nowak fascinates. Do you often partner with mathematicians? I do. I think that mathematical models are a good way of...
Out of a Magic Math Function, One Solution to Rule Them All
...big 19th-century mathematics breakthroughs.” A Magic Certificate It might seem strange that dimensions eight and 24 should behave differently from, say, dimension seven or 18 or 25. But mathematicians have...
The Subtle Art of the Mathematical Conjecture
It’s an educated guess, not a proof. But a good conjecture will guide math forward, pointing the way into the mathematical unknown. Mountain climbing is a beloved metaphor for mathematical...
Dark Matter Gets a Reprieve in New Analysis
...interpretation, but only if they correctly calculated how cosmic rays travel, how protons get trapped in supernovae and how hard the solar wind blows. The math is probably right, Linden...
The Bulldogs That Bulldogs Fight
Solve a linguistic whodunit about a college mascot by thinking like a self-referencing computer subroutine. Recursion is one of the most fascinating, magical concepts in computer science and mathematics. A...