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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,...
A Mathematician Who Fled to Freedom but Still Stares Down Doubts
...International Congress of Mathematicians around the same time as the Fields Medals, honors groundbreaking work in mathematical physics and related fields. [Editor’s note: The 2022 prize was funded by the...
Moonshine Master Toys With String Theory
...Harvard University studying string theory, got to thinking about a paper that had recently been posted online. Its three coauthors had pointed out a numerical coincidence connecting far-flung mathematical objects....
An Applied Mathematician With an Unexpected Toolbox
...are certain things that a pure mathematician, I think, ought to know in applied math. And applied mathematicians have a lot to gain, frankly speaking, by increasing their awareness of...
Emmy Murphy Is a Mathematician Who Finds Beauty in Flexibility
...unique vantage point not just to mathematics but also to the mathematical community. On paper, all that’s visible is a mathematician at the top of her profession: A full professor...
A Life in Games
...mathematician at the University of California, Berkeley, and Richard Guy, a mathematician at the University of Calgary. The game-theory trio of John Conway, Elwyn Berlekamp and Richard Guy came together...