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Long-Sought Proof Tames Some of Math’s Unruliest Equations
...held for this kind of PDE. Unfortunately, “the real world is nonuniformly elliptic,” said Giuseppe Mingione, a mathematician at the University of Parma in Italy. That meant mathematicians were stuck....
The Evolving Foundations of Math
An exploration of how mathematicians are still renovating and rebuilding the core pillars of their field today....
A Powerful New ‘QR Code’ Untangles Math’s Knottiest Knots
With a newly discovered mathematical tool, researchers are hoping to gain unprecedented insight into the structure of complex knots. From the tangle in your computer cord to the mess your...
The 17-Year-Old Student Who Solved a Major Math Mystery
When Hannah Cairo was a 17-year-old high school student, she did something mathematicians had been unable to do for four decades: she overturned the Mizohata-Takeuchi conjecture, a famous prediction about how wave energy behaves. In this video, Cairo and the mathematicians she worked with explain how she found the counterexample and what it means for the field.
What Makes for ‘Good’ Mathematics?
...phenomenon that occurs. So it’s not just that mathematics, that [what] mathematicians find intellectually interesting end up being physically important. But even within mathematics, subjects that mathematicians find elegant also...
Corina Tarnita and the Deep Mathematics of Social Insects
...hear her on, on math, but she’s made this amazing transition from being an all-out high-power mathematician to now becoming an all-out high-power biologist. She goes to Africa, she’s mucking...
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...
Science Evolves. Will Science Education?
...New Math, Unlike the Old Math,” about new math and science standards working their way into America’s schools, and writing about Channa Comer, one of four extraordinary teachers profiled in...
After Prime Proof, an Unlikely Star Rises
...of a mathematician? Intuition. Your feelings in math. What is that? It’s difficult to tell other people. That’s your personal stuff. Some of the big awards in math, particularly the...