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Solution: ‘How to Win at Deep Learning’
...math. But real expertise requires more significant math and an intuitive talent that some call ‘a dark art.’” In our case, this very simple network can very easily solve the...
The Unforgiving Math That Stops Epidemics
...other diseases are about much more than your health. They’re about achieving a collective resistance to disease that goes beyond individual well-being — and that is governed by mathematical principles...
The Math Behind Gerrymandering and Wasted Votes
...assembly district map, mathematicians are on the front lines in the fight for electoral fairness. Simple math can help scheming politicians draw up districts that give their party outsize influence,...
Visionary Mathematician Vladimir Voevodsky Dies at 51
...In math as in life, Vladimir Voevodsky played by his own rules. Voevodsky, a Russian-born mathematical prodigy, produced a string of daring insights in the 1990s that revolutionized one of...
Mathematicians Measure Infinities and Find They’re Equal
...complexity of mathematical theories. In a breakthrough that disproves decades of conventional wisdom, two mathematicians have shown that two different variants of infinity are actually the same size. The advance...
Rebecca Goldin: Why Math Is the Best Way to Make Sense of the World
Rebecca Goldin explains why quantitative literacy is so important. Max Hirshfeld for Quanta Magazine...
Why Math Is the Best Way to Make Sense of the World
...follows. Where does your passion for mathematics and quantitative thought come from? As a young person I never thought I liked math. I absolutely loved number sequences and other curious...
The Math That Promises to Make the World Brighter
...(LEDs are already efficient, but they could be a lot more so). My latest story, “Mathematicians Tame Rogue Waves, Lighting Up Future of LEDs,” is about a mathematical discovery that...
Mathematicians Tame Rogue Waves, Lighting Up Future of LEDs
The mathematician Svitlana Mayboroda and collaborators have figured out how to predict the behavior of electrons — a mathematical discovery that could have immediate practical effects. In the 1950s, Philip...