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Quanta’s Science and Math Crossword Puzzle
Celebrate a year’s worth of scientific and mathematical insights by solving this brain-teasing cryptic crossword from our puzzle columnist. Last December, we published our 2017 Science and Math Crossword as...
The Year in Math and Computer Science
Several mathematicians under the age of 30, and amateur problem-solvers of all ages, made significant contributions to some of the most difficult questions in math and theoretical computer science. Youth...
The Year in Physics
...memory of a long-ago collision between the young Milky Way and a dwarf galaxy. “There’s debris everywhere,” said Cambridge’s Vasily Belokurov. The Peculiar Math That Could Underlie the Laws...
How Complex Wholes Emerge From Simple Parts
...gravity — that is, to reinterpret gravity in terms of particles that fit within quantum mechanics. Season two launched in August with a video about a mysterious mathematical pattern that’s...
In the Universe of Equations, Virtually All Are Prime
...They’re the stars of countless popular stories, and they feature in the most celebrated open questions in mathematics. But there’s another mathematical phenomenon that’s almost as foundational, yet receives far...
Quanta Writers and Editors on Time, Life, Math and the Universe
On November 16, more than 200 readers joined writers and editors from Quanta Magazine for a panel discussion exploring the latest ideas in fundamental physics, biology and mathematics research....
A Universal Law for the ‘Blood of the Earth’
...system, one that carried the “blood of the Earth.” Today, branching river networks still lure would-be explainers, many of whom hope to glimpse some underlying mathematical code responsible for etching...
A Collector of Math and Physics Surprises
...go through them all. That’s how you learn mathematics.” I went back to the library and found the mathematics book with the largest number of problems. The book was in...
Quanta Writers and Editors Discuss Trends in Science and Math
...good math teacher? And it turns out that, you know, there’s certain things in quantum mechanics which are like perfect for mathematics, for modern mathematics. And modern mathematics doesn’t want...