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Three Major Physics Discoveries and Counting
...in the 1970s, Wu did much of the math and analysis to discern the three “jets” of energy flying away from particle collisions that signaled the existence of gluons —...
A Master of Numbers and Shapes Who Is Rewriting Arithmetic
...begin.” Many mathematicians react to Scholze with “a mixture of awe and fear and exhilaration,” said Bhargav Bhatt, a mathematician at the University of Michigan who has written joint papers...
A Poet of Computation Who Uncovers Distant Truths
...started exploring the use of mathematical models to identify the causative genes for various neuropsychiatric disorders. “I use mathematics because I want to solve problems,” Nikolaos said. “He’s thinking about...
The New Science of Seeing Around Corners
...a number of nascent labs around the country. Since then, a stream of new insights and mathematical tricks has been making non-line-of-sight imaging ever more powerful and practical. Along with...
Tinkertoy Models Produce New Geometric Insights
...sticklike models — mathematicians have gained a new sense of how those properties behave. For more than 100 years, mathematicians have investigated a fact about geometric objects that is so...
Planets Found to Be Larger Than the Disks They Come From
...larger than the universe’s biggest star-skirts. This seems to defy math, or at least reason; planets shouldn’t be larger than the stuff they’re made from. The authors behind the new...
Prepping for a Flood of Heavenly Bodies
...next step in physics, you actually have to do it that way. At that point, physics became linked to mathematics. Mathematics is the language of physics. We’re now going through...
New Proof Shows Infinite Curves Come in Two Types
...split is contingent on the Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer (BSD) conjecture being true. The BSD conjecture is one of the most famous open problems in math. Mathematicians are far from proving...
Solution: ‘How Equality and Inequality Shape Birds and Bees’
...(1 + 4/15)/(2/5 + 4/15) = 29/15, or about 1.9. If you find the math daunting, you can get the same result by listing the expectations in a spreadsheet: The...