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Mathematicians Bridge Finite-Infinite Divide
...by the mathematician Stephen Simpson of Vanderbilt University. The program replaces an earlier, unachievable plan of action by the great mathematician David Hilbert, who in 1921 commanded mathematicians to weave...
A Life Inspired by an Unexpected Genius
...helped launch the Spirit of Ramanujan Math Talent Initiative, a venture that “strives to find undiscovered mathematicians around the world and match them with advancement opportunities in the field.” Quanta...
Janna Levin’s Theory of Doing Everything
...a trumpet and, on the wall that serves as Levin’s blackboard, a drink rail underlining a mathematical description of a black hole spinning in a magnetic field. Whether Levin is...
Why Sleeping Beauty Is Lost in Time
...it as an informal Polymath-style “peer review.” Readers are also invited to share their opinions in the comments section below. The famous Sleeping Beauty problem has polarized communities of mathematicians...
Solution: A Hat Trick + 1 of Hat Puzzles
...the expected amount? The winning strategy here can be called the “checksum modulo-3” method. It uses two mathematical principles: the checksum (you add a bunch of numbers and take the...
Michael Atiyah’s Imaginative State of Mind
...first half of his career connecting mathematics to mathematics, and the second half connecting mathematics to physics. Atiyah is best known for the “index theorem,” devised in 1963 with Isadore...
Solution: ‘The Problem With Dancing Shapes’
...song, at least 17 triangles will be empty. For this problem there was a slight twist in the tail — the kind of twist that math teachers add in order...
How Strange Twists in DNA Orchestrate Life
...language of DNA topology that could direct a host of cellular processes. “It’s intriguing that DNA behaves this way, that topology matters in living organisms,” said Craig Benham, a mathematical...
Hope Rekindled for Perplexing Proof
...Mathematical Institute at Oxford in the most significant attempt thus far to make sense of what Mochizuki had done. Minhyong Kim, a mathematician at Oxford and one of the three...