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Marjorie Rice’s Secret Pentagons
...column in Scientific American about tiling, a problem that has fascinated mathematicians since ancient Greek times. The problem, as Martin Gardner explained in the column, asks which shapes “tile” the...
How Pi Connects Colliding Blocks to a Quantum Search Algorithm
...To his delight, he’d discovered that the math explaining these block dynamics, if viewed the right way, is actually identical to the math explaining one of the most famous quantum...
Janna Levin on Seeing and Hearing Black Holes
...interesting that black holes are small. Strogatz: The mathematician in you loves their simplicity, it sounds like. Levin: Absolutely. We can do these very stylized mathematical solutions around the black...
A New Agenda for Low-Dimensional Topology
...I do think it shapes how he is viewed in the field of mathematics, but I think in general we do separate the mathematics from the mathematician.” A Communal Effort...
The Researcher Who Explores Computation by Conjuring New Worlds
...get interested in mathematics? I was interested in math even before I really knew what it was. In third grade, my math grades started slipping because we were supposed to...
Are Robots About to Level Up?
...mic with my cohost, Janna Levin, exploring some of the biggest unanswered questions in math and science today. In this episode, we’ve got Professor Daniela Rus to talk to us...
Introducing The Quanta Podcast
...advances in basic or fundamental science and math, from astrophysics and quantum computing, to molecular biology and classic unsolved math problems. Quanta’s been doing this for more than a decade...
Does Form Really Shape Function?
...whose career has been devoted to using mathematics and physics to explore the form and function of common phenomena. Mahadevan, or Maha to his friends and colleagues, has long been...
A ‘Rebel’ Without a Ph.D.
...bit of biology, sometimes a little bit of chemistry. Mathematics applies to all kinds of things. That’s one of the joys of being a mathematician. Why math? I think the...