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Why the Key to a Mathematical Life is Collaboration
...1950s and ’60s, and enjoyed math as a young child. Her father, an engineer, encouraged her interest, telling her that “mathematics gives you power” — the power to understand chemistry,...
Her Key to Modeling Brains: Ignore the Right Details
Being able to think like a physicist helps Carina Curto, a mathematician-turned-neuroscientist, pull insights about the human brain out of theoretical models. In May 2013, the mathematician Carina Curto attended...
Searching Symbols for the Rules of Change
...for clarity. When and how did you realize that you liked mathematics? Oh, I always liked math. I grew up with math in the house. It was always there, sort...
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...
Untangling Why Knots Are Important
...How many different kinds of knots are there? And why do mathematicians and scientists care about knots anyway? Turns out, there’s lots of real-world applications for this branch of math,...
New Conversations, Deep Questions, Bold Ideas in Season Four of ‘The Joy of Why’
...joy in your science? STROGATZ: Well, math generally, but especially how math connects to the real world. I’m what would be called an applied mathematician, and so that means, where’s...
What Can Jellyfish Teach Us About Fluid Dynamics?
...have to say, as a mathematician, I was always drawn to fluid dynamics because it’s so difficult. Some of the most difficult math problems that we have faced in the...
The Cryptographer Who Ensures We Can Trust Our Computers
...me a math riddle. As hard as you want, but if I solve, I go.’” She usually went. Her dormant love of math finally awakened in college, when she began...
The Musical, Magical Number Theorist
...a remarkable mathematical intuition. “Teach me more math!” he would badger his mother, Mira Bhargava, a mathematics professor at Hofstra University in Hempstead, N.Y. When he was 3 years old...