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Why Math Is the Best Way to Make Sense of the World
...follows. Where does your passion for mathematics and quantitative thought come from? As a young person I never thought I liked math. I absolutely loved number sequences and other curious...
The Peculiar Math That Could Underlie the Laws of Nature
...in the process of collecting clues.” The Dixon Algebra To reconstruct particle physics, Furey uses the product of the four division algebras, \(\mathbb{R}\otimes\mathbb{C}\otimes\mathbb{H}\otimes\mathbb{O}\) (\(\mathbb{R}\) for reals, \(\mathbb{C}\) for complex numbers,...
In Music and Math, Lillian Pierce Builds Landscapes
...that she illustrated herself. Quanta Magazine spoke with Pierce about her research, the relationship between math and music, and her efforts to make math more accessible. The interview has been...
Nathan Seiberg on How Math Might Complete the Ultimate Physics Theory
...has QFT, and physics in general, been such a provocative stimulus for math? I think physicists and mathematicians are motivated by different questions. And different kinds of questions lead to...
At the Math Olympiad, Computers Prepare to Go for the Gold
...better, two things need to change. First, Lean needs to learn more math. The program draws on a library of mathematics called mathlib, which is growing all the time. Today...
Rebecca Goldin and Brian Nosek on Hard Truths in Math and Psychology
...career as a mathematician, I always felt like I needed to do something more than just pure math. I have something more to give the world or I want to...
Some Math Problems Seem Impossible. That Can Be a Good Thing.
...the history of math, by those working on problems ranging from squaring the circle to circumambulating the city of Königsberg. And it’s a question that helps us shape what mathematics...
Can Math and Physics Save an Arrhythmic Heart?
...math, an “excitable system.” An excitable system has a lot of mathematics behind that can be used for nonlinear systems or chaotic systems to investigate the dynamics of these activations...
The Mystery at the Heart of Physics That Only Math Can Solve
...fields). But the explanatory power of QFT comes at a high mathematical cost. “Quantum field theories are by far the most complicated objects in mathematics, to the point where mathematicians...