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How Is Cell Death Essential to Life?
...the mic with my cohost, Janna Levin, exploring some of the biggest unanswered questions in math and science today. In this episode, we ask cellular biologist Shai Shaham, how can...
The Year in Physics
...on the math discussion website MathOverflow. “[Someone] asked this question and I happened to know the tools to answer it,” Agol said. “Then I was realizing that this might be...
The Year in Biology
...math discussion website MathOverflow. “[Someone] asked this question and I happened to know the tools to answer it,” Agol said. “Then I was realizing that this might be relevant to...
The Year in Computer Science
...recently posted on the math discussion website MathOverflow. “[Someone] asked this question and I happened to know the tools to answer it,” Agol said. “Then I was realizing that this...
Catalytic Computing Taps the Full Power of a Full Hard Drive
...the tree evaluation problem, it involves repeatedly solving a simpler math problem that turns a pair of input numbers into a single output. Copies of this math problem are arranged...
‘Next-Level’ Chaos Traces the True Limit of Predictability
...rigorously established that there are mathematical questions that can never be answered, true statements that can never be proved. Now physicists are connecting those unknowable mathematical systems with an increasing...
Treading Softly in a Connected World
...mathematics behind what he calls “the extreme fragility of interdependency.” In a system of interconnected networks like the economy, city infrastructure or the human body, their model indicates that a...
Topologists Tackle the Trouble With Poll Placement
...to each different polling site,” said Topaz. Porter notes that mathematicians have had success using sophisticated mathematical techniques to quantify gerrymandering, the deliberate skewing of legislative districts. He sees the...
Geometers Engineer New Tools to Wrangle Spacecraft Orbits
...to planetary motion, but felt out of his depth mathematically. “It was really exciting to see the mathematicians trying to bring their expertise down into the engineering side,” he said....