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Pencils Down: Experiments in Education

Do You Love or Hate Math and Science?

By Thomas Lin
October 20, 2016
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Quanta Magazine invites readers to share about their early math and science learning experiences and to explore the interactive survey results.

Pencils Down: Experiments in Education

The Art of Teaching Math and Science

By Thomas Lin +3 authors
Siobhan Roberts
Natalie Wolchover
Emily Singer
October 11, 2016
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The impasse in math and science instruction runs deeper than test scores or the latest educational theory. What can we learn from the best teachers on the front lines?

algorithms

How to Cut Cake Fairly and Finally Eat It Too

By Erica Klarreich
October 6, 2016
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Computer scientists have come up with a bounded algorithm that can fairly divide a cake among any number of people.

computer security

Hacker-Proof Code Confirmed

By Kevin Hartnett
September 20, 2016
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Computer scientists can prove certain programs to be error-free with the same certainty that mathematicians prove theorems.

neuroscience

Mapping the Brain to Build Better Machines

By Emily Singer
April 6, 2016
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A project to decipher the brain’s learning rules could revolutionize machine learning.

Quantized Columns

Is AlphaGo Really Such a Big Deal?

By Michael Nielsen
March 29, 2016
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The Go-playing program teaches itself to replicate something very much like human intuition, an advance that promises far-reaching consequences.

Q&A

Searching for the Algorithms Underlying Life

By John Pavlus
January 28, 2016
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The biological world is computational at its core, argues computer scientist Leslie Valiant.

Computer Science

Landmark Algorithm Breaks 30-Year Impasse

By Erica Klarreich
December 14, 2015
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Computer scientists are abuzz over a fast new algorithm for solving one of the central problems in the field.

Mathematics

‘Outsiders’ Crack 50-Year-Old Math Problem

By Erica Klarreich
November 24, 2015
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Three computer scientists have solved a problem central to a dozen far-flung mathematical fields.


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