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Susan Valot narrates in-depth news episodes based on Quanta Magazine's articles about mathematics, physics, biology and computer science.

All Episodes about mathematics

Never-Repeating Tiles Can Safeguard Quantum Information

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Why the Human Brain Perceives Small Numbers Better

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Echoes of Electromagnetism Found in Number Theory

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An Old Conjecture Falls, Making Spheres a Lot More Complicated

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Old Problem About Mathematical Curves Falls to Young Couple

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Graduate Student’s Side Project Proves Prime Number Conjecture

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Simulated water particles swirl in an upward vortex.

Deep Learning Poised to ‘Blow Up’ Famed Fluid Equations

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Illustration of a figure standing between broken orange walls and a blue unbreakable wall with a broken sledgehammer beside it

Researchers Identify ‘Master Problem’ Underlying All Cryptography

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An illustration of a flashlight whose beam illuminates graphs and numbers.

Mathematicians Outwit Hidden Number Conspiracy

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An illustration of a mathematician on a ladder stringing red and blue beads against a tiled red backdrop dotted with blue circles.

Mathematician Hurls Structure and Disorder Into Century-Old Problem

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Researchers Defeat Randomness to Create Ideal Code

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How Many Numbers Exist? Infinity Proof Moves Math Closer to an Answer.

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The Mystery at the Heart of Physics That Only Math Can Solve

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Statistics Postdoc Tames Decades-Old Geometry Problem

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An illustration of a doughnut-shaped elliptic curve intertwined with the Julia set.

Mathematicians Set Numbers in Motion to Unlock Their Secrets

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Illustration of mathematicians descending through a cavern whose walls are lined with polynomials.

Mathematicians Resurrect Hilbert’s 13th Problem

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