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The Joy of Why

Deep Curiosity Inspires The Joy of Why Podcast

By Steven Strogatz
March 17, 2022
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The noted mathematician and author Steven Strogatz explains how the conversations with experts in his new Quanta Magazine podcast address his lifelong fascination with timeless mysteries.

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number theory

Math’s ‘Oldest Problem Ever’ Gets a New Answer

By Jordana Cepelewicz
March 9, 2022
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A new proof significantly strengthens a decades-old result about the ubiquity of ways to represent whole numbers as sums of unit fractions.

A fictitious 8-bit video game called “counterexample quest.”
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In New Math Proofs, Artificial Intelligence Plays to Win

By Leila Sloman
March 7, 2022
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A new computer program fashioned after artificial intelligence systems like AlphaGo has solved several open problems in combinatorics and graph theory.

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How We Can Make Sense of Chaos

By David S. Richeson
March 2, 2022
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Dynamical systems can be chaotic and impossible to predict, but mathematicians have discovered tools to help understand them.

Insights puzzle

Play First and Lose: Zugzwang in Chess, Math and Pizzas

By Pradeep Mutalik
February 22, 2022
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How to win games by going second and leaving your opponent with no good options.

machine learning

Machine Learning Becomes a Mathematical Collaborator

By Kelsey Houston-Edwards
February 15, 2022
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Two recent collaborations between mathematicians and DeepMind demonstrate the potential of machine learning to help researchers generate new mathematical conjectures.

artificial intelligence

Computer Scientists Prove Why Bigger Neural Networks Do Better

By Mordechai Rorvig
February 10, 2022
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Two researchers show that for neural networks to be able to remember better, they need far more parameters than previously thought.

geometry

An Ancient Geometry Problem Falls to New Mathematical Techniques

By Steve Nadis
February 8, 2022
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Three mathematicians show, for the first time, how to form a square with the same area as a circle by cutting them into interchangeable pieces that can be visualized.

number theory

Mathematicians Prove 30-Year-Old André-Oort Conjecture

By Leila Sloman
February 3, 2022
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A team of mathematicians has solved an important question about how solutions to polynomial equations relate to sophisticated geometric objects called Shimura varieties.


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