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Mathematicians Chase Moonshine’s Shadow
...monster group, a gargantuan algebraic object that, mathematicians believed, captured a new kind of symmetry. Mathematicians weren’t sure that the monster group actually existed, but they knew that if it...
How to Create Art With Mathematics
The beautiful color illustration of frieze patterns above is taken from Frank A. Farris’ Creating Symmetry: The Artful Mathematics of Wallpaper Patterns (Princeton University Press, 2015), a math book that,...
Moonshine Master Toys With String Theory
...Harvard University studying string theory, got to thinking about a paper that had recently been posted online. Its three coauthors had pointed out a numerical coincidence connecting far-flung mathematical objects....
A Mathematician Who Fled to Freedom but Still Stares Down Doubts
...International Congress of Mathematicians around the same time as the Fields Medals, honors groundbreaking work in mathematical physics and related fields. [Editor’s note: The 2022 prize was funded by the...
An Applied Mathematician With an Unexpected Toolbox
...are certain things that a pure mathematician, I think, ought to know in applied math. And applied mathematicians have a lot to gain, frankly speaking, by increasing their awareness of...
Emmy Murphy Is a Mathematician Who Finds Beauty in Flexibility
...unique vantage point not just to mathematics but also to the mathematical community. On paper, all that’s visible is a mathematician at the top of her profession: A full professor...
A Life in Games
...mathematician at the University of California, Berkeley, and Richard Guy, a mathematician at the University of Calgary. The game-theory trio of John Conway, Elwyn Berlekamp and Richard Guy came together...
‘The Rest of the World Disappears’: Claire Voisin on Mathematical Creativity
The recipient of the 2024 Crafoord Prize in Mathematics discusses math as art, math as language, and math as abstract thought. It took a long time for Claire Voisin to...
A Life Inspired by an Unexpected Genius
...helped launch the Spirit of Ramanujan Math Talent Initiative, a venture that “strives to find undiscovered mathematicians around the world and match them with advancement opportunities in the field.” Quanta...