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Big Data’s Mathematical Mysteries

By Ingrid Daubechies
December 3, 2015
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Machine learning works spectacularly well, but mathematicians aren’t quite sure why.

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A ‘Rebel’ Without a Ph.D.

By Thomas Lin
March 26, 2014
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A conversation with the mathematical physicist Freeman Dyson on quantum electrodynamics, climate change and his latest pet project.

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A New Tool to Help Mathematicians Pack

By Natalie Wolchover
December 20, 2013
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Improvements in how densely spheres and other shapes can be packed together could lead to advances in materials science, deep space communication and theoretical physics.


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