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Mathematical Thinking Isn’t What You Think It Is
The mathematician David Bessis claims that everyone is capable of, and can benefit greatly from, mathematical thinking. David Bessis was drawn to mathematics for the same reason that many people...
To Live Your Best Life, Do Mathematics
...Mathematical Association of America (MAA), delivered an emotional farewell address at the Joint Mathematics Meetings of the MAA and the American Mathematical Society in which he challenged the mathematical community...
The ‘Accidental Activist’ Who Changed the Face of Mathematics
...features of different mathematical theories derived from the same underlying assumptions. Blum received her doctorate at age 25 for developing a new way to apply this high-level perspective to mathematical...
In Computers We Trust?
...playing an increasingly prominent role, are not always the end goal of mathematics. “Many mathematicians think they are building theories with the ultimate goal of understanding the mathematical universe,” said...
Symbolic Mathematics Finally Yields to Neural Networks
...majored in math and statistics,” said Charton, who studies applications of AI to mathematics. “Math was our original language.” As a result, Lample and Charton’s program could produce precise solutions...
Building the Mathematical Library of the Future
...able to read and formalize math textbooks automatically. But mathematicians are increasing the percentage. While today mathlib contains most of the content through second-year undergraduate math, contributors hope to add...
John Urschel: From NFL Player to Mathematician
...scientist or a mathematician. What word would you use to describe what you’re trying to become? Urschel: Yeah, mathematician. Strogatz: Simply mathematician. Urschel: Yeah, mathematician, of course. Strogatz: That’s the...
Mathematicians Chase Moonshine’s Shadow
...monster group, a gargantuan algebraic object that, mathematicians believed, captured a new kind of symmetry. Mathematicians weren’t sure that the monster group actually existed, but they knew that if it...
How to Create Art With Mathematics
The beautiful color illustration of frieze patterns above is taken from Frank A. Farris’ Creating Symmetry: The Artful Mathematics of Wallpaper Patterns (Princeton University Press, 2015), a math book that,...