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How (Relatively) Simple Symmetries Underlie Our Expanding Universe
...events as 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...
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...
The Computer Scientist Who Shrinks Big Data
...everybody’s Black. It was never like, “Oh, you’re a Black kid who’s succeeding in math and science.” It was like, well, of course I’m a Black kid, everyone’s a Black...
Our Favorite Comments of the Year
...to any sufficiently specific development in pure mathematics: River Creature As a non-mathematician person, what are the practical applications of this proof? The math is interesting to see but for...
How to Make the Universe Think for Us
...image, and the “learning” needed to classify such images correctly. A system that mastered both tasks would leverage the universe’s ability to act mathematically without actually doing math. “We never...