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Meet the New Math, Unlike the Old Math
...on what counts in each discipline, instruction in science and math is remarkably resistant to change. That said, we’re riding the next big wave in K-12 science and math education...
Do You Love or Hate Math and Science?
...more than 1,000 initial participants said about math: Charlie, a 77-year-old American, has loved math since college. He wrote that he “hated math in [grades] 1-12. First day of university...
Math Quartet Joins Forces on Unified Theory
...mathematics departments in the world. That a number of elite mathematicians would come out of the same class at a top university is unusual, but not unprecedented. The most recent...
The Math That’s Too Difficult for Physics
...that aren’t described by today’s best theories. But each additional particle requires more math. To do this math, physicists use a tool called a Feynman diagram, which is essentially an...
19 Women Leading Math and Physics
...influenced her greatly, she had no desire to be the face of women in mathematics. In addition to featuring these perspectives, Quanta has interviewed and profiled other top mathematicians and...
The Mathematician Who Finds the Poetry in Math and the Math in Poetry
She Finds the Poetry in Math and the Math in Poetry The links between math, music and art have been explored for thousands of years. Sarah Hart is now turning...
Will Computers Redefine the Roots of Math?
...mathematical arguments. Awodey, a mathematician and logician at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pa., followed along as Voevodsky wrote a definition of a mathematical object using a new formalism he...
‘Outsiders’ Crack 50-Year-Old Math Problem
...entire system? Richard Kadison (left), pictured at the 1970 International Congress of Mathematicians in Nice, France, and Isadore Singer posed a mathematics problem in 1959 that stood unsolved for more...
In Mysterious Pattern, Math and Nature Converge
...their eigenvalues. That’s why mathematicians call the phenomenon “universality.” “It seems to be a law of nature,” said Van Vu, a mathematician at Yale University who, with Terence Tao of...