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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...
How Could Life Evolve From Cyanide?
...the biggest unanswered questions in science and math today. In this episode, we’re going to be looking at our best current understanding of the origin of life. How did life...
What Is Life?
...into some of the biggest unanswered questions in math and science today. In this episode, we’re going to be talking about what it means to be alive. What is life?...
An Immunologist Fights Covid with Tweets and a Nasal Spray
...that I met a math teacher who instilled this interest and excitement for math in me. I started taking more math classes and decided that maybe I’ll go into science...