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Hobbyist Finds Math’s Elusive ‘Einstein’ Tile
...an emerita mathematics professor at Moravian University in Pennsylvania. She described herself as “flabbergasted.” Mathematicians have been searching for a tile like the hat since the 1960s, when Robert Berger...
The Quest to Decode the Mandelbrot Set, Math’s Famed Fractal
The Quest to Decode the Mandelbrot Set, Math’s Most Famous Fractal For decades, a small group of mathematicians has patiently unraveled the mystery of what was once math’s most popular...
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...
Big Advance on Simple-Sounding Math Problem Was a Century in the Making
...to math for comfort. “I found mathematics really helpful for that,” he said. “Mathematics is not just about proving theorems — it’s about a way to interact with reality, maybe.”...
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
...said of John von 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 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...