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Math’s Famous Map Problem: The Four-Color Theorem
David Richeson discusses the history and significance of the four color theorem. Joy Ng for Quanta Magazine...
The Cryptographer Who Ensures We Can Trust Our Computers
...me a math riddle. As hard as you want, but if I solve, I go.’” She usually went. Her dormant love of math finally awakened in college, when she began...
Does Nothingness Exist?
...Magazine that takes you into some of the biggest unanswered questions in math and science today. In this episode, we’re going to ask: Does nothingness exist? (00:17) Philosophers and scientists...
New Proof Shows That ‘Expander’ Graphs Synchronize
...to simplify these mathematical constraints enough for mathematicians to make headway on studying the system. Under most circumstances, such large systems of coupled differential equations are all but impossible to...
Math That Lets You Think Locally but Act Globally
...the mathematicians who proved it, as they expected the Erdős-Hajnal conjecture to be false for pentagons. It was another surprisingly powerful mathematical result that came from thinking locally to act...
Can Math and Physics Save an Arrhythmic Heart?
...math, an “excitable system.” An excitable system has a lot of mathematics behind that can be used for nonlinear systems or chaotic systems to investigate the dynamics of these activations...
Elliptic Curves Yield Their Secrets in a New Number System
...burst to prominence in mathematics in 1994 when Andrew Wiles used them to prove Fermat’s Last Theorem, among the most celebrated results of 20th century mathematics. This past January, Ana...
What Can Jellyfish Teach Us About Fluid Dynamics?
...have to say, as a mathematician, I was always drawn to fluid dynamics because it’s so difficult. Some of the most difficult math problems that we have faced in the...
How Math Achieved Transcendence
Transcendental numbers include famous examples like e and π, but it took mathematicians centuries to understand them. In 1886 the mathematician Leopold Kronecker famously said, “God Himself made the whole...