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The Mathematical Shape of Things to Come
Scientific data sets are becoming more dynamic, requiring new mathematical techniques on par with the invention of calculus. VIDEO: Carlsson describes how topological analysis can help researchers interpret large data...
Simple Set Game Proof Stuns Mathematicians
...papers posted online in recent weeks, mathematicians have solved a problem about the pattern-matching card game Set that predates the game itself. The solution, whose simplicity has stunned mathematicians, is...
The Mathematics of Juggling
Juggling has advanced enormously in recent decades, thanks in part to the mathematical study of possible patterns. The late computer scientist Claude Shannon has a well-deserved reputation as the father...
Mathematicians Measure Infinities and Find They’re Equal
...complexity of mathematical theories. In a breakthrough that disproves decades of conventional wisdom, two mathematicians have shown that two different variants of infinity are actually the same size. The advance...
Federico Ardila: A Mathematician Who Dances to the Joys and Sorrows of Discovery
Federico Ardila on the joys and challenges of teaching math and helping students find their mathematical voice. Jason Henry for Quanta Magazine...
Mathematicians Tame Turbulence in Flattened Fluids
...of smooth streams of fluid into chaotic vortices, doesn’t just make for bumpy plane rides. It also throws a wrench into the very mathematics used to describe atmospheres, oceans and...
A Video Tour of the Standard Model
...so strong that it’s hard to see beyond it. And that, maybe, is where math comes in. Mathematicians will have to develop a fresh perspective on quantum field theory if...
In Noisy Equations, One Who Heard Music
...of Mathematicians in Seoul, South Korea. The Fields is widely viewed as the highest honor a mathematician can receive. Hairer, a professor at the University of Warwick in England, has...
How to Force Our Machines to Play Fair
...another to white applicants. But as recent work has shown — most notably in the book “Weapons of Math Destruction,” by the mathematician Cathy O’Neil — discrimination that we reject...