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Can We Program Our Cells?
...all this, which was a branch of mathematics, the branch of mathematics that I happen to love — nonlinear dynamics — that I, I want to believe helped you in...
The Researcher Who Would Teach Machines to Be Fair
...and science research? I grew up very interested in both, but primarily in math. I was good at solving puzzles and even had some success at the International Mathematical Olympiad....
How to Tame the Endless Infinities Hiding in the Heart of Particle Physics
...the English-speaking world. The mathematics itself poses another barrier. The trilogy’s 1,110 pages brim with original mathematical objects and bizarre coinages. Odd-sounding terms like “trans-series,” “analyzable germs,” “alien derivations” and...
Does Nothingness Exist?
...Magazine that takes you into some of the biggest unanswered questions in math and science today. In this episode, we’re going to ask: Does nothingness exist? (00:17) Philosophers and scientists...
How to Build an Origami Computer
Two mathematicians have shown that origami can, in principle, be used to perform any possible computation. In 1936, the British mathematician Alan Turing came up with an idea for a...
How Do Machines ‘Grok’ Data?
...the observer becomes a part of the process being observed.” The overtrained neural network, designed to perform certain mathematical operations, had learned the general structure of the numbers and internalized...
Do We Need a New Theory of Gravity?
...biggest questions in math and science today. In this episode, we ask physicist Claudia de Rham, what might gravity be hiding at a particle level? And how might this change...
How the Human Brain Contends With the Strangeness of Zero
...simple, math students and mathematicians alike continue to wrestle with it. Zero is the “eccentric uncle in the family of numbers,” Nieder said. To use zero in calculations, mathematicians had...
How Big Data Carried Graph Theory Into New Dimensions
Researchers are turning to the mathematics of higher-order interactions to better model the complex connections within their data. Graph theory isn’t enough. The mathematical language for talking about connections, which...