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A Bird’s-Eye View of Nature’s Hidden Order
...useful. From a mathematical standpoint, “the more you study it, the more elegant and conceptually compelling it seems,” said Henry Cohn, a mathematician and packing expert at Microsoft Research New...
Genetic Engineering to Clash With Evolution
...could be an important natural safety feature. Evolution is unpredictable by its very nature, but a handful of biologists are using mathematical models and careful lab experiments to try to...
How to Cut Cake Fairly and Finally Eat It Too
...related Abstractions post: All Is Not Fair in Cake-Cutting and Math Over the past 50 years, many mathematicians and computer scientists, including Procaccia, had convinced themselves that there was probably...
A Fight to Fix Geometry’s Foundations
...the practice of mathematics. “There are two conceptions of mathematics,” Abouzaid said. “There’s mathematics as: The currency of mathematics is ideas. And there’s mathematics as: The currency of mathematics is...
‘Digital Alchemist’ Seeks Rules of Emergence
...joined an experimental lab. I spent the whole year basically designing a flange for a sputtering chamber. I was not inspired. I like puzzles, I like computers, I like math....
A Long-Sought Proof, Found and Almost Lost
When a German retiree proved a famous long-standing mathematical conjecture, the response was underwhelming. Thomas Royen at his home in Schwalbach am Taunus, Germany. As he was brushing his teeth...
Solution: ‘A Ticking Evolutionary Clock’
...some biological realism. Making accurate models requires the math to follow the biology and not vice versa. And when conclusions are drawn from mathematical models, it is best to use...
A Map of Human History, Hidden in DNA
...out. His mathematical chops have served him well in this endeavor. His innovative analyses and new ways of visualizing complex data reveal the genetic signatures of ancestry and the surprising...
Pencils Down: Soni Midha of East Side Community High School
In school or in life, Soni Midha wants her math students to be able to prove why something is correct. Max Cantor and Lisa Iaboni for Quanta Magazine...