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How Can We Tell Which Forecasts Are True?
...enthusiast. We are all familiar with innumeracy — the lack of a basic knowledge of mathematics. A significant proportion of the population is effectively mathematically illiterate and can easily be...
Solution: ‘Which Forecasts Are True?’
...to gauge the accuracy of the forecasters. For math lovers, it’s also a chance to assess how well mathematical models can predict complex real-world phenomena and to expose their pitfalls....
Can Analogies Reveal the Laws of Physics?
...that experimenting on sonic black holes may indeed shed light on real ones because there might be a “common cause” underlying their similar mathematics. In the same way, yellow fingers...
Quantum Gravity’s Time Problem
...by the holographic emergence of space-time from quantum entanglement. Researchers have worked out the math showing how the hologram arises in toy universes that possess a fisheye space-time geometry known...
Visionary Mathematician Vladimir Voevodsky Dies at 51
...In math as in life, Vladimir Voevodsky played by his own rules. Voevodsky, a Russian-born mathematical prodigy, produced a string of daring insights in the 1990s that revolutionized one of...
Mathematicians Crack the Cursed Curve
A famously difficult mathematical problem resisted solution for over 40 years. Mathematicians have finally resolved it by following an intuition that links number theory to physics. Mathematical proofs are elaborate...
Decades-Old Graph Problem Yields to Amateur Mathematician
...a potential Polymath problem. Polymath began about 10 years ago when Timothy Gowers, a mathematician at the University of Cambridge, wanted to find a way to facilitate massive online collaborations...
Why Mathematicians Can’t Find the Hay in a Haystack
In math, sometimes the most common things are the hardest to find. The first time I heard a mathematician use the phrase, I was sure he’d misspoken. We were on...
Mathematicians Catch a Pattern by Figuring Out How to Avoid It
We finally know how big a set of numbers can get before it has to contain a pattern known as a “polynomial progression.” Some mathematical patterns are so subtle you...