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New Shapes Solve Infinite Pool-Table Problem
...related Abstractions post: Why Mathematicians Like to Classify Things “They are like these rare jewels,” said Curt McMullen, a mathematician at Harvard University and a co-author of the work along...
A Universal Law for the ‘Blood of the Earth’
...system, one that carried the “blood of the Earth.” Today, branching river networks still lure would-be explainers, many of whom hope to glimpse some underlying mathematical code responsible for etching...
Proof Finds That All Change Is a Mix of Order and Randomness
...at Northwestern University. It often happens in math that after a sweeping conjecture is proven false, mathematicians attempt a more modest version of the statement. In 1977 mathematician Jean-Paul Thouvenot...
How (Relatively) Simple Symmetries Underlie Our Expanding Universe
...before. It is in the language of these symmetries that relativity simplified our mathematical description of the universe. In fact, the math becomes even nicer when the expansion of space-time...
The Architect of Modern Algorithms
...a blank page. Liskov, who had studied mathematics as an undergraduate at the University of California, Berkeley, wanted to approach programming not as a technical problem, but as a mathematical...
Tadashi Tokieda’s Special Kind of Magic
The mathematician Tadashi Tokieda and host Steven Strogatz explore what we can learn about the world from simple “toys” with remarkable physical or mathematical properties. The mathematician Tadashi Tokieda loves...
The Computer Scientist Who Can’t Stop Telling Stories
...were trying to achieve. The math was there to capture the design in a quantitative way. With mathematics, I put little dials on everything. I could say the letter “A”...
Graduate Student Solves Decades-Old Conway Knot Problem
...wrote in an email. When she first started studying mathematics in college, she didn’t stand out as a “standard golden child math prodigy,” said Elisenda Grigsby, one of Piccirillo’s professors...
Scientists Uncover the Universal Geometry of Geology
An exercise in pure mathematics has led to a wide-ranging theory of how the world comes together. On a mild autumn day in 2016, the Hungarian mathematician Gábor Domokos arrived...