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Mathematicians Clear Hurdle in Quest to Decode Primes
...video detailing just how it works.) In the years since Riemann proposed it, the Riemann hypothesis has instigated many advances in mathematics, though mathematicians have made little progress on the...
How to Write Software With Mathematical Perfection
...How are they different? Coq was designed to do real mathematics and to be able to capture the reasoning that mathematicians do. It’s what Georges Gonthier used to prove the...
Old Problem About Mathematical Curves Falls to Young Couple
...inspire developments in cryptography, digital storage and other areas well beyond pure mathematics. Still, Vakil said, it’s not enough to understand interpolation for most curves. Mathematicians want to know it...
Amie Wilkinson Sees the Dynamic Chaos in Puff Pastry
...10-chain. I don’t know. Well, I mean, that’s a huge component of what I do as a mathematician. Not all pure mathematicians think that way, but that’s what sets me...
How Is Science Even Possible?
How are scientists able to crack fundamental questions about nature and life? How does math make the complex cosmos understandable? In this episode, the physicist Nigel Goldenfeld and co-host Steven...
A Computer Scientist Who Tackles Inequality Through Algorithms
...the optimal solution.” Does your math background still help? Math and theoretical computer science force you to be precise. Ambiguity is a bug in mathematics. If I give you a...
How to Solve Equations That Are Stubborn as a Goat
Math teachers have stymied students for hundreds of years by sticking goats in strangely shaped fields. Learn why one grazing goat problem has stumped mathematicians for more than a century....
Why and How Do We Dream?
...Steven Strogatz (00:03): I’m Steve Strogatz, and this is The Joy of Why, a podcast from Quanta Magazine that takes you into some of the biggest unanswered questions in math...
My Fantastic Voyage at Quanta Magazine
...led the development of our expansive and enticing interactive map of mathematics. Later that year, I relished the collaborative fusion of mathematical, visual and editorial ideas that the number theorist...