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A Primordial Nucleus Behind the Elements of Life
...field theory employs a math trick sometimes used in high school calculus. In the same way that a mathematical function, such as a curve on a graph, can be approximated...
In Mysterious Pattern, Math and Nature Converge
...their eigenvalues. That’s why mathematicians call the phenomenon “universality.” “It seems to be a law of nature,” said Van Vu, a mathematician at Yale University who, with Terence Tao of...
In Computers We Trust?
...playing an increasingly prominent role, are not always the end goal of mathematics. “Many mathematicians think they are building theories with the ultimate goal of understanding the mathematical universe,” said...
Treading Softly in a Connected World
...mathematics behind what he calls “the extreme fragility of interdependency.” In a system of interconnected networks like the economy, city infrastructure or the human body, their model indicates that a...
Scientists Parse Ocean’s Dynamic Role in Climate Change
The Ocean’s Dynamic Role in Climate Change New data collected by mathematicians and oceanographers in the frigid waters of the Southern Ocean could dramatically improve climate models. The research vessel...
Unheralded Mathematician Bridges the Prime Gap
On April 17, a paper arrived in the inbox of Annals of Mathematics, one of the discipline’s preeminent journals. Written by a mathematician virtually unknown to the experts in his...
Is Nature Unnatural?
...“Particle physicists, especially string theorists, had this dream of predicting uniquely all the constants of nature,” Bousso explained. “Everything would just come out of math and pi and twos. And...
Imagining Data Without Division
...natural scientists and teach them CS.” Yu, the Berkeley statistician, hopes that mathematicians and statisticians will become intellectual leaders in big science projects. But “mathematics is more focused on technical...
The Mathematical Shape of Things to Come
Scientific data sets are becoming more dynamic, requiring new mathematical techniques on par with the invention of calculus. VIDEO: Carlsson describes how topological analysis can help researchers interpret large data...