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Rebecca Goldin: Why Math Is the Best Way to Make Sense of the World
Rebecca Goldin explains why quantitative literacy is so important.
Visionary Mathematician Vladimir Voevodsky Dies at 51
...In math as in life, Vladimir Voevodsky played by his own rules. Voevodsky, a Russian-born mathematical prodigy, produced a string of daring insights in the 1990s that revolutionized one of...
The Math Behind Gerrymandering and Wasted Votes
...assembly district map, mathematicians are on the front lines in the fight for electoral fairness. Simple math can help scheming politicians draw up districts that give their party outsize influence,...
The Unforgiving Math That Stops Epidemics
...other diseases are about much more than your health. They’re about achieving a collective resistance to disease that goes beyond individual well-being — and that is governed by mathematical principles...
Solution: ‘How to Win at Deep Learning’
...math. But real expertise requires more significant math and an intuitive talent that some call ‘a dark art.’” In our case, this very simple network can very easily solve the...
A Mathematician Who Dances to the Joys and Sorrows of Discovery
Federico Ardila opens up about his journey as a mathematician, teacher, Colombian transplant, DJ and creator of mathematical spaces. “Nadie te quita lo bailado.” (No one can take from you...
A Physicist’s Physicist Ponders the Nature of Reality
...also clearly very important for math. But it’s extremely difficult for mathematicians to study; the way physicists define it is very hard for mathematicians to follow with a rigorous theory....
Secret Link Uncovered Between Pure Math and Physics
An eminent mathematician reveals that his advances in the study of millennia-old mathematical questions owe to concepts derived from physics. Mathematics is full of weird number systems that most people...
Mathematicians Crack the Cursed Curve
A famously difficult mathematical problem resisted solution for over 40 years. Mathematicians have finally resolved it by following an intuition that links number theory to physics. Mathematical proofs are elaborate...