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‘The Rest of the World Disappears’: Claire Voisin on Mathematical Creativity
The recipient of the 2024 Crafoord Prize in Mathematics discusses math as art, math as language, and math as abstract thought. It took a long time for Claire Voisin to...
Elliptic Curve ‘Murmurations’ Found With AI Take Flight
Mathematicians are working to fully explain unusual behaviors uncovered using artificial intelligence. Elliptic curves are among the more beguiling objects in modern mathematics. They don’t seem complicated, but they form...
A New Agenda for Low-Dimensional Topology
...I do think it shapes how he is viewed in the field of mathematics, but I think in general we do separate the mathematics from the mathematician.” A Communal Effort...
Quanta Relaunches Hyperjumps Math Game
Explore a universe of numbers and arithmetic in our new and improved interactive math game, Hyperjumps! It’s the year 2718. Humanity has invented a warp drive that enables a spacecraft...
Hyperjumps Math Game
Play Quanta Magazine’s daily interactive math game, Hyperjumps! Back in 1981, Cameron Gordon introduced a new way to relate two knots — mathematical constructs modeled after the knots that appear...
Unfolding the Mysteries of Polygonal Billiards
...foremost mathematicians to bring in ideas from disparate fields including dynamical systems, topology and differential geometry. As with any great mathematics problem, work on these problems has created new mathematics...
What Makes for ‘Good’ Mathematics?
...phenomenon that occurs. So it’s not just that mathematics, that [what] mathematicians find intellectually interesting end up being physically important. But even within mathematics, subjects that mathematicians find elegant also...
How to Build an Origami Computer
Two mathematicians have shown that origami can, in principle, be used to perform any possible computation. In 1936, the British mathematician Alan Turing came up with an idea for a...
Decoding Math’s Most Famous Fractal
Mathematicians working in the field of complex dynamical systems are patiently unraveling the Mandelbrot set’s mysteries and may be on the verge of solving a fundamental conjecture that would allow...