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A Mathematician Who Decodes the Patterns Stamped Out by Life
...Corina Tarnita was a budding mathematician, she found her interest in mathematics flickering, about to burn out. As a girl she had stormed through Romania’s National Mathematical Olympiad — where...
The (Math) Problem With Pentagons
...how to fit shapes together to make toys, floors, walls and art — and to understand the mathematics behind such patterns — for thousands of years. But it was only...
Mathematicians Crack the Cursed Curve
A famously difficult mathematical problem resisted solution for over 40 years. Mathematicians have finally resolved it by following an intuition that links number theory to physics. Mathematical proofs are elaborate...
Secret Link Uncovered Between Pure Math and Physics
An eminent mathematician reveals that his advances in the study of millennia-old mathematical questions owe to concepts derived from physics. Mathematics is full of weird number systems that most people...
A Physicist’s Physicist Ponders the Nature of Reality
...also clearly very important for math. But it’s extremely difficult for mathematicians to study; the way physicists define it is very hard for mathematicians to follow with a rigorous theory....
Bacteria Sacrifice DNA Repair for Better RNA
...directly altering a cell’s enzymatic activity but through a domino effect that leaves other, unrelated proteins unable to function right. Researchers have been doing the math wrong when thinking about...
A Mathematician Who Dances to the Joys and Sorrows of Discovery
Federico Ardila opens up about his journey as a mathematician, teacher, Colombian transplant, DJ and creator of mathematical spaces. “Nadie te quita lo bailado.” (No one can take from you...
Choosy Eggs May Pick Sperm for Their Genes, Defying Mendel’s Law
...such heterozygote males and females, they found that none of the offspring lacked both copies of DDX1, even though simple Mendelian math would suggest 25 percent of them should. Given...
Federico Ardila: A Mathematician Who Dances to the Joys and Sorrows of Discovery
Federico Ardila on the joys and challenges of teaching math and helping students find their mathematical voice. Jason Henry for Quanta Magazine...