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Some Math Problems Seem Impossible. That Can Be a Good Thing.
...the history of math, by those working on problems ranging from squaring the circle to circumambulating the city of Königsberg. And it’s a question that helps us shape what mathematics...
Can Math and Physics Save an Arrhythmic Heart?
...math, an “excitable system.” An excitable system has a lot of mathematics behind that can be used for nonlinear systems or chaotic systems to investigate the dynamics of these activations...
The Mystery at the Heart of Physics That Only Math Can Solve
...fields). But the explanatory power of QFT comes at a high mathematical cost. “Quantum field theories are by far the most complicated objects in mathematics, to the point where mathematicians...
Inside the Secret Math Society Known Simply as Nicolas Bourbaki
For almost a century, the anonymous members of Nicolas Bourbaki have written books intended as pure expressions of mathematical thought. Antoine Chambert-Loir’s initiation into one of math’s oldest secret societies...
Undergraduate Math Student Pushes Frontier of Graph Theory
...had set the previous best upper bound on the problem. A Life of Math Sah grew up in Portland, Oregon, and liked math from a young age. “Some of my...
How Many Numbers Exist? Infinity Proof Moves Math Closer to an Answer.
...phantasm into solid logic. Their proof, which appeared in May in the Annals of Mathematics, unites two rival axioms that have been posited as competing foundations for infinite mathematics. Asperó...
A Plan to Address the World’s Challenges With Math
...the world a better place. Will the mathematicians involved with Mathematics for Humanity be more on the pure math or applied math side? Even among mathematicians, I think there’s a...
How Can Math Protect Our Data?
...is in math, and there’s a lot of really beautiful mathematics that goes on with error-correcting codes, but now I’m in a computer science department and electrical engineering department. There’s...
The Math Behind Gerrymandering and Wasted Votes
...assembly district map, mathematicians are on the front lines in the fight for electoral fairness. Simple math can help scheming politicians draw up districts that give their party outsize influence,...