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‘Next-Level’ Chaos Traces the True Limit of Predictability
...rigorously established that there are mathematical questions that can never be answered, true statements that can never be proved. Now physicists are connecting those unknowable mathematical systems with an increasing...
Why Everything in the Universe Turns More Complex
...recently posted on the math discussion website MathOverflow. “[Someone] asked this question and I happened to know the tools to answer it,” Agol said. “Then I was realizing that this...
How a Problem About Pigeons Powers Complexity Theory
...in APEPP. In a specific mathematical sense, any progress on this one problem will automatically translate into progress on a host of others that computer scientists and mathematicians have long...
New Proof Settles Decades-Old Bet About Connected Networks
...to mathematicians to find out who was right. In December, by tapping into a crucial phenomenon in physics — and pushing it to its limits — three mathematicians finally issued...
Treading Softly in a Connected World
...mathematics behind what he calls “the extreme fragility of interdependency.” In a system of interconnected networks like the economy, city infrastructure or the human body, their model indicates that a...
Topologists Tackle the Trouble With Poll Placement
...to each different polling site,” said Topaz. Porter notes that mathematicians have had success using sophisticated mathematical techniques to quantify gerrymandering, the deliberate skewing of legislative districts. He sees the...
Geometers Engineer New Tools to Wrangle Spacecraft Orbits
...to planetary motion, but felt out of his depth mathematically. “It was really exciting to see the mathematicians trying to bring their expertise down into the engineering side,” he said....
When Data Is Missing, Scientists Guess. Then Guess Again.
...Harvard University, he was told he could not skip the psychology department’s required math courses. Feeling that he’d already covered the material in college, he switched to computer science, completing...
A Bird’s-Eye View of Nature’s Hidden Order
...useful. From a mathematical standpoint, “the more you study it, the more elegant and conceptually compelling it seems,” said Henry Cohn, a mathematician and packing expert at Microsoft Research New...