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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....
How Nature Solves Problems Through Computation
...what is the right way to represent this problem mathematically?” It’s always a combination of the data, these discussions, and the math on the board that leads us to a...
Marjorie Rice’s Secret Pentagons
...column in Scientific American about tiling, a problem that has fascinated mathematicians since ancient Greek times. The problem, as Martin Gardner explained in the column, asks which shapes “tile” the...
How Pi Connects Colliding Blocks to a Quantum Search Algorithm
...To his delight, he’d discovered that the math explaining these block dynamics, if viewed the right way, is actually identical to the math explaining one of the most famous quantum...