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Mathematicians Discover New Way for Spheres to ‘Kiss’
...turned out, they had to break a few unspoken rules. From Codes to Kisses Since the mid-20th century, mathematicians have relied on the mathematics of information theory and error correction...
New Proofs Probe the Limits of Mathematical Truth
By proving a broader version of Hilbert’s famous 10th problem, two groups of mathematicians have expanded the realm of mathematical unknowability. The world of mathematics is full of unreachable corners,...
Amie Wilkinson Sees the Dynamic Chaos in Puff Pastry
...10-chain. I don’t know. Well, I mean, that’s a huge component of what I do as a mathematician. Not all pure mathematicians think that way, but that’s what sets me...
How Is Science Even Possible?
How are scientists able to crack fundamental questions about nature and life? How does math make the complex cosmos understandable? In this episode, the physicist Nigel Goldenfeld and co-host Steven...
Mathematicians Tame Rogue Waves, Lighting Up Future of LEDs
The mathematician Svitlana Mayboroda and collaborators have figured out how to predict the behavior of electrons — a mathematical discovery that could have immediate practical effects. In the 1950s, Philip...
Mathematicians Prove 2D Version of Quantum Gravity Really Works
...of mathematicians has done what many researchers thought impossible. In a trilogy of landmark publications, they have recast Polyakov’s formula using fully rigorous mathematical language and proved that the Liouville...
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...