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A Poet of Computation Who Uncovers Distant Truths
...started exploring the use of mathematical models to identify the causative genes for various neuropsychiatric disorders. “I use mathematics because I want to solve problems,” Nikolaos said. “He’s thinking about...
A Master of Numbers and Shapes Who Is Rewriting Arithmetic
...begin.” Many mathematicians react to Scholze with “a mixture of awe and fear and exhilaration,” said Bhargav Bhatt, a mathematician at the University of Michigan who has written joint papers...
An Innovator Who Brings Order to an Infinitude of Equations
...being selected as one of four winners of the Fields Medal, a prize conferred every four years by the International Mathematical Union on the most accomplished mathematicians in the world...
Akshay Venkatesh: A Number Theorist Who Bridges Math and Time
Akshay Venkatesh on his mathematical working style, which took him many years to discover. Sasha Maslov for Quanta Magazine...
A Traveler Who Finds Stability in the Natural World
...point,” he said. Figalli turned toward serious math in his third year of high school. A mathematician colleague of his father’s encouraged Figalli to participate in the International Mathematical Olympiad,...
A Math Theory for Why People Hallucinate
...emerging hypothesis points to a variation of the mechanism that produces so-called “Turing patterns.” In a 1952 paper, the British mathematician and code-breaker Alan Turing proposed a mathematical mechanism for...
The Peculiar Math That Could Underlie the Laws of Nature
...in the process of collecting clues.” The Dixon Algebra To reconstruct particle physics, Furey uses the product of the four division algebras, \(\mathbb{R}\otimes\mathbb{C}\otimes\mathbb{H}\otimes\mathbb{O}\) (\(\mathbb{R}\) for reals, \(\mathbb{C}\) for complex numbers,...
Three Major Physics Discoveries and Counting
...in the 1970s, Wu did much of the math and analysis to discern the three “jets” of energy flying away from particle collisions that signaled the existence of gluons —...
Solution: ‘The Slippery Math of Causation’
...variables, in a “fair” mathematical theory of causation, all of them should share equal responsibility for the outcomes. But in comparable real-world cases, we do not intuitively use mathematical equivalence...