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The Quest to Decode the Mandelbrot Set, Math’s Famed Fractal
The Quest to Decode the Mandelbrot Set, Math’s Most Famous Fractal For decades, a small group of mathematicians has patiently unraveled the mystery of what was once math’s most popular...
The Surprisingly Simple Math Behind Puzzling Matchups
...is never this straightforward. But from a purely mathematical standpoint, this argument has some appeal. It uses an important idea in mathematics known as transitivity, a familiar property that allows...
Why Locusts Swarm, Humans Do Good and Time Marches On
...mathematician of mathematicians, Terry Tao. All 24 episodes from season 3 will be available here or wherever you get your podcasts. The scientists and mathematicians interviewed for season three of...
New Theory Suggests Chatbots Can Understand Text
...ones by combining skills in a manner that hints at understanding — combinations that were unlikely to exist in the training data. This theoretical approach, which provides a mathematically provable...
Math’s ‘Game of Life’ Reveals Long-Sought Repeating Patterns
John Conway’s Game of Life, a famous cellular automaton, has been found to have periodic patterns of every possible length. In 1969, the British mathematician John Conway devised a beguilingly...
The Mathematician Who Finds the Poetry in Math and the Math in Poetry
She Finds the Poetry in Math and the Math in Poetry The links between math, music and art have been explored for thousands of years. Sarah Hart is now turning...
The Math Hiding in Plain Sight
Sarah Hart, the professor of geometry at Gresham College, sees symmetry everywhere. Video: Christopher Webb Young and Emily Buder/Quanta Magazine; Photo: Philipp Ammon for Quanta Magazine...
Mathematicians Identify the Best Versions of Iconic Shapes
...of shapes. These results occupy a quirky corner of math and, fittingly, have been produced by unlikely collaborations, involving a mathematician practicing origami with his wife and a professor teaching...
The ‘Accidental Activist’ Who Changed the Face of Mathematics
...features of different mathematical theories derived from the same underlying assumptions. Blum received her doctorate at age 25 for developing a new way to apply this high-level perspective to mathematical...