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The Cryptographer Who Ensures We Can Trust Our Computers
...me a math riddle. As hard as you want, but if I solve, I go.’” She usually went. Her dormant love of math finally awakened in college, when she began...
The Musical, Magical Number Theorist
...a remarkable mathematical intuition. “Teach me more math!” he would badger his mother, Mira Bhargava, a mathematics professor at Hofstra University in Hempstead, N.Y. When he was 3 years old...
A Traveler Who Finds Stability in the Natural World
...point,” he said. Figalli turned toward serious math in his third year of high school. A mathematician colleague of his father’s encouraged Figalli to participate in the International Mathematical Olympiad,...
A Primordial Nucleus Behind the Elements of Life
...field theory employs a math trick sometimes used in high school calculus. In the same way that a mathematical function, such as a curve on a graph, can be approximated...
Is Nature Unnatural?
...“Particle physicists, especially string theorists, had this dream of predicting uniquely all the constants of nature,” Bousso explained. “Everything would just come out of math and pi and twos. And...
Together and Alone, Closing the Prime Gap
...California, Los Angeles, a winner of the Fields Medal, mathematics’ highest honor, had created a “Polymath project,” an open, online collaboration to improve the bound that attracted dozens of participants....
To Settle Infinity Dispute, a New Law of Logic
...as the fundamental laws of mathematics. Most mathematicians simply ignore the holes, which lie in abstract realms with few practical or scientific ramifications. But for the stewards of math’s logical...
The New Science of Evolutionary Forecasting
...said. “I evidently was wrong-headed.” Getting Complex Without Getting Random Lenski’s results have inspired other scientists to set up more complex experiments. Michael Doebeli, a mathematical biologist at the University...
A Design Dilemma Solved, Minus Designs
...the exception, mathematicians wondered, or the rule? “It was one of the most famous problems in combinatorics,” said Gil Kalai, a mathematician at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He recalls...