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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...
3-D Fractals Offer Clues to Complex Systems
...study equations and shapes using their own techniques. They twist and stretch mathematical objects, translate them into new mathematical languages, and apply them to new problems. As they find new...
The Illuminating Geometry of Viruses
...inactivated viruses. Twarock’s mathematical work also has applications beyond viruses. Govind Menon, a mathematician at Brown University, is exploring self-assembling micro- and nanotechnologies. “The mathematical literature on synthetic self-assembly is...
Kaisa Matomäki Dreams of Primes
...attend a boarding school that specialized in math instruction, and as a senior she won first prize in a national mathematics competition. When she began serious mathematical research as a...