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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...
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....