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How a Strange Grid Reveals Hidden Connections Between Simple Numbers
...prolific conjecturer Paul Erdős posed a math problem: Take any set of numbers you like. These could be the whole numbers from 1 to 12, the first 10,000 prime numbers,...
Cryptography That Is Provably Secure
Researchers have just released cryptographic code with the same level of invincibility as a mathematical proof. Programmers are human, but mathematics is immortal. By making programming more mathematical, a community...
How Geometry, Data and Neighbors Predict Your Favorite Movies
A little high school geometry can help you understand the basic math behind movie recommendation engines. Adrienne is a Marvel movie fanatic: Her favorite films all involve the Hulk, Thor...
Philosophers Debate New ‘Sonic Black Hole’ Discovery
...in it. This implies that an evaporating black hole destroys information — something quantum mechanics doesn’t allow. Quantum math relies on the premise that information is never lost. As particles...
His Artificial Intelligence Sees Inside Living Cells
...that doesn’t look like a cell at all.” It was very frustrating for me because the math and probability were all correct. But when we looked at the first images...
On Your Mark, Get Set, Multiply
The way you learned to multiply works, but computers employ a faster algorithm. This summer, battle lines were drawn over a simple math problem: 8 ÷ 2(2 + 2) =...
Why I’m Hosting The Joy of x Podcast
...delightful moment, equally unexpected, came in my conversation with the mathematician Alex Kontorovich, when he was telling me what it was like to work with one of the greatest mathematicians...
How Gödel’s Proof Works
...Gödel pulled off arguably one of the most stunning intellectual achievements in history. Mathematicians of the era sought a solid foundation for mathematics: a set of basic mathematical facts, or...
The Cosmologist Who Dreams in the Universe’s Dark Threads
...in humanities, in philosophy, and in math. I realized that in cosmology, I could sort of combine my interests in philosophical questions, applying math to study what happens in the...