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Tag: Mathematics

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A Mathematical ‘Fever Dream’ Hits the Road

March 14, 2025March 15, 2025Siobhan RobertsComments Off on A Mathematical ‘Fever Dream’ Hits the Road

Meet “Mathemalchemy,” a traveling math-meets-art installation coming eventually to a dimension near you.

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What’s Best, According to the Italian Mathematician Alessio Figalli

February 14, 2025Siobhan RobertsComments Off on What’s Best, According to the Italian Mathematician Alessio Figalli

Alessio Figalli studies optimal transport, a field of math that ranges from the movements of clouds to the workings of chatbots.

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In Seattle, a Meeting of 5,444 Mathematical Minds

January 28, 2025January 28, 2025Siobhan RobertsComments Off on In Seattle, a Meeting of 5,444 Mathematical Minds

Participants at this year’s Joint Mathematics Meetings explored everything from the role of A.I. to the hyperbolic design of a patchwork denim skirt.

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Berrien Moore III Is Dead

December 27, 2024Max Bearak and Ash WuComments Off on Berrien Moore III Is Dead

As a researcher at several universities and an adviser at NASA, he used data analysis to show how the planet’s different systems are interrelated.

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Why Democracy Lives and Dies by Math

October 24, 2024October 25, 2024Siobhan RobertsComments Off on Why Democracy Lives and Dies by Math

A documentary filmmaker and a mathematician discuss our fear of numbers and its civic costs.

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For Epidemics to Cross Oceans, Viruses on Ships Had to Beat the Odds

July 26, 2024July 26, 2024Gina KolataComments Off on For Epidemics to Cross Oceans, Viruses on Ships Had to Beat the Odds

In the era when people traveled by sailing ship and steamer, illnesses usually burned themselves out before boats reached shore, a new study finds.

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AlphaProof, a New A.I. from Google DeepMind, Scores Big at the International Math Olympiad

July 25, 2024Siobhan RobertsComments Off on AlphaProof, a New A.I. from Google DeepMind, Scores Big at the International Math Olympiad

A.I. is getting good at math — and might soon make a worthy collaborator for humans.

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A Mammoth DNA Discovery Helps Map an Ancient Genome in 3-D

July 11, 2024July 11, 2024Siobhan RobertsComments Off on A Mammoth DNA Discovery Helps Map an Ancient Genome in 3-D

A “fossil chromosome” preserves the structure of a woolly mammoth’s genome — and offers a better grasp of how it once worked.

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The Rubik Cube Turns 50

July 1, 2024July 2, 2024Siobhan RobertsComments Off on The Rubik Cube Turns 50

Mathematicians and hobbyists have had a half-century of fun exploring the 43 billion billion permutations of Erno Rubik’s creation.

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A.I.’s Latest Challenge: the Math Olympics

January 17, 2024January 17, 2024Siobhan RobertsComments Off on A.I.’s Latest Challenge: the Math Olympics

Watch out, nerdy high schoolers, AlphaGeometry is coming for your mathematical lunch.

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