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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...
Imagining Data Without Division
...natural scientists and teach them CS.” Yu, the Berkeley statistician, hopes that mathematicians and statisticians will become intellectual leaders in big science projects. But “mathematics is more focused on technical...
A Tenacious Explorer of Abstract Surfaces
...thesis resulted in three papers published in the three top journals of mathematics: Annals of Mathematics, Inventiones Mathematicae and Journal of the American Mathematical Society. The majority of mathematicians will...
A Grand Vision for the Impossible
...mathematics,” he said. “I kind of realized that math was at the base of all these things; so why not study mathematics?” This change was for the best, Ratnaparkhi joked....