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Janna Levin on Seeing and Hearing Black Holes
...interesting that black holes are small. Strogatz: The mathematician in you loves their simplicity, it sounds like. Levin: Absolutely. We can do these very stylized mathematical solutions around the black...
A New Agenda for Low-Dimensional Topology
...I do think it shapes how he is viewed in the field of mathematics, but I think in general we do separate the mathematics from the mathematician.” A Communal Effort...
The Researcher Who Explores Computation by Conjuring New Worlds
...get interested in mathematics? I was interested in math even before I really knew what it was. In third grade, my math grades started slipping because we were supposed to...
Are Robots About to Level Up?
...mic with my cohost, Janna Levin, exploring some of the biggest unanswered questions in math and science today. In this episode, we’ve got Professor Daniela Rus to talk to us...
A ‘Rebel’ Without a Ph.D.
...bit of biology, sometimes a little bit of chemistry. Mathematics applies to all kinds of things. That’s one of the joys of being a mathematician. Why math? I think the...
The End of Theoretical Physics as We Know It
...With quantum simulations, the mathematical model is of secondary relevance. We currently use the math to identify a suitable system because the math tells us what properties we should look...
Scientists Discover Exotic New Patterns of Synchronization
...crickets inspired the American theoretical biologist Art Winfree to propose a mathematical model of synchronization. Winfree’s equation was too difficult to solve, but in 1974, a Japanese physicist named Yoshiki...
Hologram Within a Hologram Hints at Fate of Black Holes
...so — or where Hawking’s math went wrong. The latest paper, posted online in late August, went further, offering a new way to think about Hawking’s math. Holographers usually walk...
Cosmic Triangles Open a Window to the Origin of Time
...have a different menu of cosmological correlations.” Those are additional calculations to pursue with the new mathematical tools. But the researchers are also continuing to explore the math itself. Arkani-Hamed...