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Genetic Engineering to Clash With Evolution
...could be an important natural safety feature. Evolution is unpredictable by its very nature, but a handful of biologists are using mathematical models and careful lab experiments to try to...
How to Cut Cake Fairly and Finally Eat It Too
...related Abstractions post: All Is Not Fair in Cake-Cutting and Math Over the past 50 years, many mathematicians and computer scientists, including Procaccia, had convinced themselves that there was probably...
A Fight to Fix Geometry’s Foundations
...the practice of mathematics. “There are two conceptions of mathematics,” Abouzaid said. “There’s mathematics as: The currency of mathematics is ideas. And there’s mathematics as: The currency of mathematics is...
‘Digital Alchemist’ Seeks Rules of Emergence
...joined an experimental lab. I spent the whole year basically designing a flange for a sputtering chamber. I was not inspired. I like puzzles, I like computers, I like math....
A Long-Sought Proof, Found and Almost Lost
When a German retiree proved a famous long-standing mathematical conjecture, the response was underwhelming. Thomas Royen at his home in Schwalbach am Taunus, Germany. As he was brushing his teeth...