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Francis Su: Math Is for Everybody
Francis Su discusses how the community of mathematicians tends to exclude certain people.
Francis Su: Math and the Good Life
Francis Su explains how mathematics can help a person to live well.
To Live Your Best Life, Do Mathematics
...Mathematical Association of America (MAA), delivered an emotional farewell address at the Joint Mathematics Meetings of the MAA and the American Mathematical Society in which he challenged the mathematical community...
In Mathematics, ‘You Cannot Be Lied To’
...first. Born and raised in Paris, Serfaty first became intrigued by mathematics in high school. Ultimately she gravitated toward physics problems, constructing mathematical tools to forecast what should happen in...
New Number Systems Seek Their Lost Primes
For centuries, mathematicians tried to solve problems by adding new values to the usual numbers. Now they’re investigating the unintended consequences of that tinkering. Mathematicians are digging up the root...
The Almost-Proof of Fermat’s Last Theorem
...Manjul Bhargava, a mathematician at Princeton University. “It’s so counterintuitive to think that could fail for a bigger number system, but it sometimes does.” 19th-century mathematicians thought the “roots of...
19 Women Leading Math and Physics
...influenced her greatly, she had no desire to be the face of women in mathematics. In addition to featuring these perspectives, Quanta has interviewed and profiled other top mathematicians and...
Yves Meyer, Wavelet Expert, Wins Abel Prize
...cited “for his pivotal role in the development of the mathematical theory of wavelets.” [No Caption] The French mathematician Yves Meyer, a self-described “nomad” who has made deep contributions to...
Quantum Questions Inspire New Math
...The mathematical physicist and Nobel laureate Eugene Wigner has written eloquently about the amazing ability of mathematics to describe reality, characterizing it as “the unreasonable effectiveness of mathematics in the...