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What Causes Giant Rogue Waves?
...clever math. Find unexplored solar systems in Quanta Magazine’s new daily math game, Hyperjumps. Hyperjumps challenges you to find simple number combinations to get your rocket from one exoplanet to...
How Math Has Changed the Shape of Gerrymandering
...“With modern technology, you can gerrymander pretty effectively without making your shapes very weird,” said Beth Malmskog, a mathematician at Colorado College. This makes it that much harder to figure...
What Is the Nature of Consciousness?
...philosophy taking a concept which has some tricky meanings, mathematics, using math to sharpen that and turn it into something you can apply, and then consciousness research — trying to...
Math Patterns That Go On Forever but Never Repeat
Math Patterns That Go On Forever but Never Repeat Simple math can help explain the complexities of the newly discovered aperiodic monotile. Have you ever admired how the slats of...
How a Computer Broke a 50-Year Math Record
...AlphaTensor quickly rediscovered — and surpassed, for some cases — the reigning algorithm discovered by German mathematician Volker Strassen in 1969. Christopher Webb Young/Quanta Magazine; Emily Zhang for Quanta Magazine...
A Plan to Address the World’s Challenges With Math
...the world a better place. Will the mathematicians involved with Mathematics for Humanity be more on the pure math or applied math side? Even among mathematicians, I think there’s a...
Why Mathematicians Re-Prove What They Already Know
...bother to do this? For one thing, it’s fun. More importantly, “I think the line between recreational math and serious math is very thin,” said William Gasarch, a professor of...
The Number 15 Describes the Secret Limit of an Infinite Grid
...finds a surprisingly straightforward answer. As an undergraduate at the University of Chile, Bernardo Subercaseaux took a dim view of using computers to do math. It seemed antithetical to real...
How Can Some Infinities Be Bigger Than Others?
...have to do with the foundations of mathematics itself? (01:14) Joining me today to discuss infinity is Justin Moore, professor of mathematics at Cornell. His research interests include set theory,...