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19 Women Leading Math and Physics
...influenced her greatly, she had no desire to be the face of women in mathematics. In addition to featuring these perspectives, Quanta has interviewed and profiled other top mathematicians and...
‘Digital Alchemist’ Seeks Rules of Emergence
...joined an experimental lab. I spent the whole year basically designing a flange for a sputtering chamber. I was not inspired. I like puzzles, I like computers, I like math....
The Almost-Proof of Fermat’s Last Theorem
...Manjul Bhargava, a mathematician at Princeton University. “It’s so counterintuitive to think that could fail for a bigger number system, but it sometimes does.” 19th-century mathematicians thought the “roots of...
New Number Systems Seek Their Lost Primes
For centuries, mathematicians tried to solve problems by adding new values to the usual numbers. Now they’re investigating the unintended consequences of that tinkering. Mathematicians are digging up the root...
In Mathematics, ‘You Cannot Be Lied To’
...first. Born and raised in Paris, Serfaty first became intrigued by mathematics in high school. Ultimately she gravitated toward physics problems, constructing mathematical tools to forecast what should happen in...
A Fight to Fix Geometry’s Foundations
...the practice of mathematics. “There are two conceptions of mathematics,” Abouzaid said. “There’s mathematics as: The currency of mathematics is ideas. And there’s mathematics as: The currency of mathematics is...
To Live Your Best Life, Do Mathematics
...Mathematical Association of America (MAA), delivered an emotional farewell address at the Joint Mathematics Meetings of the MAA and the American Mathematical Society in which he challenged the mathematical community...
Francis Su: Math and the Good Life
Francis Su explains how mathematics can help a person to live well. Mark Skovorodko for Quanta Magazine...
Francis Su: Math Is for Everybody
Francis Su discusses how the community of mathematicians tends to exclude certain people. Mark Skovorodko for Quanta Magazine...