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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...
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...