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Mathematicians Identify the Best Versions of Iconic Shapes
...of shapes. These results occupy a quirky corner of math and, fittingly, have been produced by unlikely collaborations, involving a mathematician practicing origami with his wife and a professor teaching...
In Praise of Simple Problems
The mathematician Richard Schwartz finds the hidden depth lurking in simple mathematical puzzles. Most of the important discoveries in mathematics take place after decades or centuries of effort. If you...
Leslie Vosshall on Designer Mosquitoes and Dude Walls
...math, who thought it was boring or oppressive in some way, who — you know, who had math anxiety. This course was a very diverse class in every way you...
How Did Geometry Create Modern Physics?
...Why is that such a big thing in the history of human thought? HE: I mean, I think that’s really what makes mathematics. Because, you know, mathematics is nothing unless...
A Brazilian Wunderkind Who Calms Chaos
...in math and nature. “It’s like a glue that connects many other subjects,” Krikorian said. Of the “two cultures of mathematics” described by the University of Cambridge mathematician and 1998...
He Dropped Out to Become a Poet. Now He’s Won a Fields Medal.
June Huh wasn’t interested in mathematics until a chance encounter during his sixth year of college. Now his profound insights connecting combinatorics and geometry have led to math’s highest honor....
The Tricky Translation of Mathematical Ideas
Big advances in math can happen when mathematicians move ideas into areas where they seem like they shouldn’t belong. My latest story is about the mathematician June Huh, who came...
Amateur Mathematician Finds Smallest Universal Cover
...John Baez, a mathematician at the University of California, Riverside. Baez lifted Lebesgue’s universal covering problem out of obscurity when he wrote about it in 2013 on his popular math...
The NASA Engineer Who’s a Mathematician at Heart
...Langley Research Center. However, she soon discovered that her role as a mathematician was limited to performing time-consuming calculations by hand. To do the creative mathematical work she craved, Darden...