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A Computer Scientist Who Tackles Inequality Through Algorithms
...the optimal solution.” Does your math background still help? Math and theoretical computer science force you to be precise. Ambiguity is a bug in mathematics. If I give you a...
How to Solve Equations That Are Stubborn as a Goat
Math teachers have stymied students for hundreds of years by sticking goats in strangely shaped fields. Learn why one grazing goat problem has stumped mathematicians for more than a century....
Why and How Do We Dream?
...Steven Strogatz (00:03): I’m Steve Strogatz, and this is The Joy of Why, a podcast from Quanta Magazine that takes you into some of the biggest unanswered questions in math...
My Fantastic Voyage at Quanta Magazine
...led the development of our expansive and enticing interactive map of mathematics. Later that year, I relished the collaborative fusion of mathematical, visual and editorial ideas that the number theorist...
Cryptography Pioneer Seeks Secure Elections the Low-Tech Way
...answers. As a technologist, I’m exploring mathematical alternatives. Do you see election integrity as a problem to be solved, just like a math or computer science problem? Voting is a...
A Physicist’s Physicist Ponders the Nature of Reality
...also clearly very important for math. But it’s extremely difficult for mathematicians to study; the way physicists define it is very hard for mathematicians to follow with a rigorous theory....
A Revealer of Secrets in the Data of Life and the Universe
...and condensed for clarity. Growing up in Jamaica, did you always enjoy math? My mother was very good at mathematics. Because she was a teacher, learning did not stop simply...
The Hidden Heroines of Chaos
...degree in math, seeking any sort of math-related job in the Boston area, eager and able to learn. She interviewed with a woman who ran the LGP-30 in the nuclear...
Echoes of Electromagnetism Found in Number Theory
...Medal, math’s highest honor, Akshay Venkatesh carried a piece of paper in his pocket. On it, he had written a table of mathematical expressions that for centuries have played a...