You are looking for
Advanced search
What Causes Giant Rogue Waves?
...clever math. Find unexplored solar systems in Quanta Magazine’s new daily math game, Hyperjumps. Hyperjumps challenges you to find simple number combinations to get your rocket from one exoplanet to...
How Is AI Changing the Science of Prediction?
...and science today. For this episode, we’re joined by mathematician and statistician Emmanuel Candès to ask how are data science and machine learning helping us approach complex prediction problems like...
To Make Language Models Work Better, Researchers Sidestep Language
We insist that large language models repeatedly translate their mathematical processes into words. There may be a better way. Language isn’t always necessary. While it certainly helps in getting across...
Matter vs. Force: Why There Are Exactly Two Types of Particles
...set physicists on the path to quantum mechanics.) Bose found a stronger mathematical derivation of Planck’s law. He wrote to Albert Einstein, asking for help in submitting the result to...
A Video Tour of the Standard Model
...so strong that it’s hard to see beyond it. And that, maybe, is where math comes in. Mathematicians will have to develop a fresh perspective on quantum field theory if...
In Noisy Equations, One Who Heard Music
...of Mathematicians in Seoul, South Korea. The Fields is widely viewed as the highest honor a mathematician can receive. Hairer, a professor at the University of Warwick in England, has...
How to Force Our Machines to Play Fair
...another to white applicants. But as recent work has shown — most notably in the book “Weapons of Math Destruction,” by the mathematician Cathy O’Neil — discrimination that we reject...
3-D Fractals Offer Clues to Complex Systems
...study equations and shapes using their own techniques. They twist and stretch mathematical objects, translate them into new mathematical languages, and apply them to new problems. As they find new...
The Illuminating Geometry of Viruses
...inactivated viruses. Twarock’s mathematical work also has applications beyond viruses. Govind Menon, a mathematician at Brown University, is exploring self-assembling micro- and nanotechnologies. “The mathematical literature on synthetic self-assembly is...