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The Mathematical Shape of Things to Come
...use of this piecemeal approach to big data analysis, but Yale University mathematician Ronald Coifman says that what is really needed is the big data equivalent of a Newtonian revolution,...
A Brazilian Wunderkind Who Calms Chaos
...and is basically unstoppable.” Avila has also studied the evolution of quantum states in physical systems governed by “quasi-periodic Schrödinger operators,” which are crude models for quasicrystals, structures that have...
How Quantum Pairs Stitch Space-Time
...where long-term predictions require powerful computers to simulate an approximation of the system’s evolution. In general, the more objects in the system, the more difficult the calculation, and that difficulty...
Physicists Hunt for the Big Bang’s Triangles
...said. “But you could say the same thing about evolution, right? There’s a limited number of fossils, and yet we have a pretty good idea of what happened, and it’s...
Teeth May Reveal a Multi-Day Biological Clock
...Colorado, Boulder, who has studied body-size evolution and who now studies growth in humans and nonhuman primates. “I think he is one of those people that is ahead of his...
Is It Friday the 13th Again?
...tackled questions related to time: How much time does it take for a gene’s rate of evolution to slow to a virtual standstill? How many half-lives does a pound of...
Solution: ‘Friday the 13th’
...come close to the year when Charles Darwin published what the philosopher Daniel Dennett has called “the greatest idea that anyone ever had” — the theory of evolution by natural...
Swirling Bacteria Linked to the Physics of Phase Transitions
...course, to imagine that bacterial patterns represent evolution’s handiwork. “Since the laws of physics allow you to essentially get patterns for free, it’s attractive to think that biology could take...
Bongard Problems and Scientific Discovery
...evolution, accomplishes them automatically. Like the process of scientific discovery, Bongard problems and code-breaking games like Mastermind require the use of inductive reasoning. This generally means going from the particular...