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A Brazilian Wunderkind Who Calms Chaos
...in math and nature. “It’s like a glue that connects many other subjects,” Krikorian said. Of the “two cultures of mathematics” described by the University of Cambridge mathematician and 1998...
The Musical, Magical Number Theorist
...a remarkable mathematical intuition. “Teach me more math!” he would badger his mother, Mira Bhargava, a mathematics professor at Hofstra University in Hempstead, N.Y. When he was 3 years old...
The New Science of Evolutionary Forecasting
...said. “I evidently was wrong-headed.” Getting Complex Without Getting Random Lenski’s results have inspired other scientists to set up more complex experiments. Michael Doebeli, a mathematical biologist at the University...
A ‘Rebel’ Without a Ph.D.
...bit of biology, sometimes a little bit of chemistry. Mathematics applies to all kinds of things. That’s one of the joys of being a mathematician. Why math? I think the...
A Fluid New Path in Grand Math Challenge
...lies at the heart of a speculative new approach to a problem that has bedeviled mathematicians for more than 150 years: understanding the solutions to the Navier-Stokes equations of fluid...
To Settle Infinity Dispute, a New Law of Logic
...as the fundamental laws of mathematics. Most mathematicians simply ignore the holes, which lie in abstract realms with few practical or scientific ramifications. But for the stewards of math’s logical...
Together and Alone, Closing the Prime Gap
...California, Los Angeles, a winner of the Fields Medal, mathematics’ highest honor, had created a “Polymath project,” an open, online collaboration to improve the bound that attracted dozens of participants....
The Mathematical Shape of Things to Come
Scientific data sets are becoming more dynamic, requiring new mathematical techniques on par with the invention of calculus. VIDEO: Carlsson describes how topological analysis can help researchers interpret large data...
Imagining Data Without Division
...natural scientists and teach them CS.” Yu, the Berkeley statistician, hopes that mathematicians and statisticians will become intellectual leaders in big science projects. But “mathematics is more focused on technical...