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How America’s Fastest Swimmers Use Math to Win Gold
...can. I’m a pure mathematician by training. That can be rather lonely. So this is perhaps the one time in my life where my training as a mathematical scientist seems...
A Classical Math Problem Gets Pulled Into the Modern World
A century ago, the great mathematician David Hilbert posed a probing question in pure mathematics. A recent advance in optimization theory is bringing Hilbert’s work into a world of self-driving...
How Physics Found a Geometric Structure for Math to Play With
...symplectic spaces captured mathematicians’ imaginations. “Mathematicians were already interested in complex numbers; they were already interested in the motion of planets,” Murphy said. “So if you come along and say,...
Why e, the Transcendental Math Constant, Is Just the Best
...Neumann’s mathematical writing that it is important when reading math to follow the tune of the conceptual argument — the equations are merely the “orchestration down in the bass.” Now...
In New Math Proofs, Artificial Intelligence Plays to Win
...and find a way to use them in mathematics as well?” Wagner began trying to use a similar strategy to produce counterexamples — examples that contradict (or “counter”) a mathematical...
The Year in Math
...going on.” Award-Winning Mathematics Every four years, the International Mathematical Union awards a gold coin with the head of Archimedes engraved on it to up to four mathematicians younger...
The Symmetry That Makes Solving Math Equations Easy
...solves every equation of the form \(ax^2+bx+c=0\). The formula is as useful as it is likely to appear in the dictionary under “math anxiety,” and a quick look shows you...
Math Patterns That Go On Forever but Never Repeat
Math Patterns That Go On Forever but Never Repeat Simple math can help explain the complexities of the newly discovered aperiodic monotile. Have you ever admired how the slats of...
How Simple Math Moves the Needle
...do for you.) There’s a fun math problem here about how much space you need to turn your car around, and mathematicians have been working on an idealized version of...