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Karen Uhlenbeck, Uniter of Geometry and Analysis, Wins Abel Prize
...but she didn’t become deeply interested in mathematics until she enrolled in the freshman honors math course at the University of Michigan. “The structure, elegance and beauty of mathematics struck...
How the Brain Links Gestures, Perception and Meaning
...where it can help young children generalize verbs to new contexts or solve math equations. “But,” she said, “it’s not necessarily clear when kids begin to understand that our hand...
Sum-of-Three-Cubes Problem Solved for ‘Stubborn’ Number 33
...equation — a kind of algebraic structure whose properties have fascinated mathematicians for millennia. “They’re rich enough to encode [other mathematical] statements that have nothing to do with Diophantine equations,”...
The Bulldogs That Bulldogs Fight
Solve a linguistic whodunit about a college mascot by thinking like a self-referencing computer subroutine. Recursion is one of the most fascinating, magical concepts in computer science and mathematics. A...
Dark Matter Gets a Reprieve in New Analysis
...interpretation, but only if they correctly calculated how cosmic rays travel, how protons get trapped in supernovae and how hard the solar wind blows. The math is probably right, Linden...
In Ecology Studies and Selfless Ants, He Finds Hope for the Future
...over those that are just pleasing. Your collaboration with Martin Nowak fascinates. Do you often partner with mathematicians? I do. I think that mathematical models are a good way of...
Quantum Leaps, Long Assumed to Be Instantaneous, Take Time
...began to develop a mathematical theory of these quantum phenomena in the 1920s. Heisenberg’s quantum mechanics enumerated all the allowed quantum states, and implicitly assumed that jumps between them are...
Physicists Debate Hawking’s Idea That the Universe Had No Beginning
...Hawking’s no-boundary proposal with new mathematical techniques that, in their view, make its predictions much more concrete than before. “We discovered that it just failed miserably,” Turok said. “It was...