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3-D Fractals Offer Clues to Complex Systems
...study equations and shapes using their own techniques. They twist and stretch mathematical objects, translate them into new mathematical languages, and apply them to new problems. As they find new...
Quantum Gravity’s Time Problem
...by the holographic emergence of space-time from quantum entanglement. Researchers have worked out the math showing how the hologram arises in toy universes that possess a fisheye space-time geometry known...
How to Force Our Machines to Play Fair
...another to white applicants. But as recent work has shown — most notably in the book “Weapons of Math Destruction,” by the mathematician Cathy O’Neil — discrimination that we reject...
The Math That’s Too Difficult for Physics
...that aren’t described by today’s best theories. But each additional particle requires more math. To do this math, physicists use a tool called a Feynman diagram, which is essentially an...
Strange Numbers Found in Particle Collisions
...collision will play out as sketched. “In some sense Feynman invented this diagram to encode complicated math as a bookkeeping device,” said Sergei Gukov, a theoretical physicist and mathematician at...
Can Analogies Reveal the Laws of Physics?
...that experimenting on sonic black holes may indeed shed light on real ones because there might be a “common cause” underlying their similar mathematics. In the same way, yellow fingers...
Solution: ‘Which Forecasts Are True?’
...to gauge the accuracy of the forecasters. For math lovers, it’s also a chance to assess how well mathematical models can predict complex real-world phenomena and to expose their pitfalls....
Do You Love or Hate Math and Science?
...more than 1,000 initial participants said about math: Charlie, a 77-year-old American, has loved math since college. He wrote that he “hated math in [grades] 1-12. First day of university...
A Wormhole Between Physics and Education
...You Love or Hate Math and Science? Share your early math and science learning experiences and explore other readers’ interactive survey results. I thought, “OK, I’ll fall back and I’ll...