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Behold Modular Forms, the ‘Fifth Fundamental Operation’ of Math

By Jordana Cepelewicz
September 21, 2023
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Modular forms are one of the most beautiful and mysterious objects in mathematics. What are they?

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How Many Exoplanets Can You Visit in Quanta’s New Math Game?

By Thomas Lin
March 3, 2023
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Explore a universe of numbers and arithmetic in our new interactive math game, Hyperjumps!

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Inside the Proton, the ‘Most Complicated Thing' Imaginable

By Charlie Wood +1 authors
Merrill Sherman
October 19, 2022
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The positively charged particle at the heart of the atom is an object of unspeakable complexity, one that changes its appearance depending on how it is probed.

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How I Learned to Love and Fear the Riemann Hypothesis

By Alex Kontorovich
January 4, 2021
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A number theorist recalls his first encounter with the Riemann hypothesis and breaks down the math in a new Quanta video.

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Hidden Structure

A New Map of All the Particles and Forces

By Natalie Wolchover +2 authors
Samuel Velasco
Lucy Reading-Ikkanda
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We’ve created a new way to explore the fundamental constituents of the universe.

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Arrows of Time

By Dan Falk +2 authors
Eleanor Lutz
Olena Shmahalo
May 4, 2020
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The human mind has long grappled with the elusive nature of time: what it is, how to record it, how it regulates life, and whether it exists as a fundamental building block of the universe.

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What Is the Geometry of the Universe?

By Erica Klarreich +1 authors
Lucy Reading-Ikkanda
March 16, 2020
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In our mind’s eye, the universe seems to go on forever. But using geometry we can explore a variety of three-dimensional shapes that offer alternatives to “ordinary” infinite space.

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The Map of Mathematics

By Kevin Hartnett
February 13, 2020
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Explore our surprisingly simple, absurdly ambitious and necessarily incomplete guide to the boundless mathematical universe.

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How Feynman Diagrams Revolutionized Physics

By Thomas Lin
May 14, 2019
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In the late 1940s, Richard Feynman invented a visual tool for simplifying particle calculations that forever changed theoretical physics.


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