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A Wormhole Between Physics and Education
...You Love or Hate Math and Science? Share your early math and science learning experiences and explore other readers’ interactive survey results. I thought, “OK, I’ll fall back and I’ll...
For Persi Diaconis’ Next Magic Trick …
...on its head. “The mathematics of any model for spatial mixing is in pretty bad shape,” Diaconis said. Diaconis hopes that the union of fluid-flow techniques and card-shuffling math might...
A Mathematician Who Dances to the Joys and Sorrows of Discovery
Federico Ardila opens up about his journey as a mathematician, teacher, Colombian transplant, DJ and creator of mathematical spaces. “Nadie te quita lo bailado.” (No one can take from you...
Using Mathematics to Repair a Masterpiece
...mathematical problems that have already led us far beyond a simple application of off-the-shelf tools. We have not yet had to build new mathematical theory, but I expect it is...
Unheralded Mathematician Bridges the Prime Gap
On April 17, a paper arrived in the inbox of Annals of Mathematics, one of the discipline’s preeminent journals. Written by a mathematician virtually unknown to the experts in his...
Janna Levin’s Theory of Doing Everything
...a trumpet and, on the wall that serves as Levin’s blackboard, a drink rail underlining a mathematical description of a black hole spinning in a magnetic field. Whether Levin is...
Mathematicians Resurrect Hilbert’s 13th Problem
...a whole array, this whole beautiful web of math.” The Roots of the Matter Mathematicians have been probing polynomials for as long as math has been around. Stone tablets carved...
A Movement to Close the Gender Gap in Mathematics
...issues in mathematics, which took place during the Brazilian Math Colloquium, the biggest gathering in the Brazilian mathematical community, which happens every two years. And this was actually the first...
Mathematics as a Team Sport
...By highlighting these problems, Powell was getting at maybe the biggest difference between the way mathematicians and non-mathematicians see the subject. To the latter group, mathematics feels settled. “What else...