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combinatorics

From Systems in Motion, Infinite Patterns Appear

By Leila Sloman
December 5, 2022
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Mathematicians are finding inevitable structures in sufficiently large sets of integers.

Abel Prize

Dennis Sullivan, Uniter of Topology and Chaos, Wins the Abel Prize

By Jordana Cepelewicz
March 23, 2022
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The American mathematician invented entire new ways to understand shapes and spaces.

Quantized Columns

How We Can Make Sense of Chaos

By David S. Richeson
March 2, 2022
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Dynamical systems can be chaotic and impossible to predict, but mathematicians have discovered tools to help understand them.

Nobel Prize

Work on Earth’s Climate and Other Complex Systems Earns Nobel Prize in Physics

By Natalie Wolchover
October 5, 2021
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Syukuro Manabe and Klaus Hasselmann have been honored for their work that led to reliable predictions of the effects of climate change. They will share the Nobel with Giorgio Parisi, who has made pioneering studies of chaotic physical systems.

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number theory

Mathematicians Set Numbers in Motion to Unlock Their Secrets

By Kelsey Houston-Edwards
February 22, 2021
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A new proof demonstrates the power of arithmetic dynamics, an emerging discipline that combines insights from number theory and dynamical systems.

Q&A

Searching Symbols for the Rules of Change

By Rachel Crowell
November 17, 2020
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Bryna Kra searches for the patterns in sequences of numbers that explain how complicated dynamical systems evolve over time.

Multimedia

The Map of Mathematics

By Kevin Hartnett
February 13, 2020
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Explore our surprisingly simple, absurdly ambitious and necessarily incomplete guide to the boundless mathematical universe.

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mathematical biology

A Mathematical Model Unlocks the Secrets of Vision

By Kevin Hartnett
August 21, 2019
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Mathematicians and neuroscientists have created the first anatomically accurate model that explains how vision is possible.

Q&A

A Mathematician Whose Only Constant Is Change

By Kevin Hartnett
June 13, 2019
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Amie Wilkinson searches for exotic examples of the mathematical structures that describe change.


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