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Mathematicians Shed Light on Minimalist Conjecture
...in the Bulletin. The substantial proportion of computed elliptic curves with rank higher than 1 is somewhat analogous to dark matter in physics, they added. “This large mass of rational...
Debating the Evolution of Multicellularity
...and the Evolution of Multicellularity,” at the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics at the University of California, Santa Barbara. The daily talk sessions were attended by scores of highly regarded...
A New Tool to Help Mathematicians Pack
...in 8-D and a Leech lattice in 24-D. These arrangements are not only densest; they are “universally” optimal. Perhaps for this reason, the structures appear broadly throughout mathematics and physics....
New Twist Found in the Story of Life’s Start
...of life’s handedness in the prebiotic worlds of physics and chemistry, not biology. Many molecules come in mirror-image forms, known as left-handed and right-handed. A chemical process will create both...
A Proof That Some Spaces Can’t Be Cut
...dissertation adviser at Harvard, and Tomasz Mrowka, a topologist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, combined equations that originated in quantum physics with Floer homology to construct a powerful invariant...
For Persi Diaconis’ Next Magic Trick …
...smooshing will confer only inconsequentially tiny increments of additional randomness. The cutoff phenomenon, which occurs in a variety of situations in math and physics, owes its discovery to an earlier...
A Life in Games
...students in math, physics and computer science, as well as for many people with jobs that provided access to idling mainframe computers. A U.S. military report estimated that the workplace...
Solution: ‘The Road Less Traveled’
...example from real science, beautifully described by Natalie Wolchover here in Quanta Magazine, is the amplituhedron, the jewel at the heart of quantum physics. In our case, the clever trick...
A Twisted Path to Equation-Free Prediction
...modeling began almost 100 years ago, and from the start it was influenced heavily by physics and engineering, which had used differential equations to describe dynamic systems for the previous...