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How Can Infinitely Many Primes Be Infinitely Far Apart?
...mathematician. Maynard likes math questions that “are simple enough to explain to a high school student but hard enough to stump mathematicians for centuries,” Quanta reported, and one of those...
The Basic Algebra Behind Secret Codes and Space Communication
...to be able to identify and correct them without wasting precious time and energy. That’s where math comes in. Mathematicians have invented ingenious ways to transmit and store information. One...
The Computer Scientist Who Finds Life Lessons in Games
...doing OK in math, and he asked me whether I wanted to do math. I said no. [Laughs.] And then he said, “You know, there’s a new discipline called computer...
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...