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A Collector of Math and Physics Surprises
...go through them all. That’s how you learn mathematics.” I went back to the library and found the mathematics book with the largest number of problems. The book was in...
Quanta Writers and Editors on Time, Life, Math and the Universe
On November 16, more than 200 readers joined writers and editors from Quanta Magazine for a panel discussion exploring the latest ideas in fundamental physics, biology and mathematics research....
Math Duo Maps the Infinite Terrain of Minimal Surfaces
A pair of mathematicians has built on an obscure, 30-year-old mathematical theory to show that soap-filmlike minimal surfaces appear abundantly in a wide range of shapes. In the final months...
The Math That Tells Cells What They Are
...leads to a mathematical formula” that is then testable in experiments on living cells, Kondev said. It’s this marriage of theory and experiment that excites Bialek. He hopes to see...
Out of a Magic Math Function, One Solution to Rule Them All
...big 19th-century mathematics breakthroughs.” A Magic Certificate It might seem strange that dimensions eight and 24 should behave differently from, say, dimension seven or 18 or 25. But mathematicians have...
How Simple Math Can Cover Even the Most Complex Holes
...H.C. Hansen in 1992. And just a few years ago, the amateur mathematician Philip Gibbs, inspired by a blog post from the mathematician John Baez, proposed some new pieces to...
Color-Changing Material Unites the Math and Physics of Knots
Mathematicians have studied knots for centuries, but a new material is showing why some knots are better than others. One sunny day last summer, Mathias Kolle, a professor at the...
‘Amazing’ Math Bridge Extended Beyond Fermat’s Last Theorem
Mathematicians have figured out how to expand the reach of a mysterious bridge connecting two distant continents in the mathematical world. When Andrew Wiles proved Fermat’s Last Theorem in the...
New Math Proves That a Special Kind of Space-Time Is Unstable
...waves gradually diminish, or will they build into a tsunami? In 1986, a mathematician proved that de Sitter space-time is stable. A pair of mathematicians did the same for Minkowski...