Quantum Mechanics, Free Will and the Game of Life
Some thoughts triggered by the death of the mathematician John Conway
Some thoughts triggered by the death of the mathematician John Conway
After the disaster of 2020, let’s hope we’re not on a figurative one
Just because a mathematical formula works does not mean it reflects reality
Mathematicians model pandemic scenarios by plugging thorny ethical and logistical issues into calculations
COVID might be fought efficiently with fewer shutdowns by restricting activities only in a particular area with a population up to 200,000 when its case rate rises above a chosen threshold...
Researchers observed a sugary treat underwater to understand the origin of spiky rock forests
As faith in government hits historic lows, organizers in the U.K. are trying a new math-based approach to democracy. Would it work in the bitterly divided U.S?
Here is how a perfectly ordinary number captured the interest of sci-fi enthusiasts, geeks and mathematicians
A new process pinpoints ocean “attractors” to find missing travelers
The tenets of Thomas Bayes, an 18th-century statistician and minister, underpin the latest estimates of the prevalence of extraterrestrial life
It’s known as the “curse of dimensionality,” and it’s why our estimates of how a disease will behave will always have imprecision
In 2023 every U.S. land surveyor will begin using a single international standard
A number can be tiny in relative terms but hugely important nonetheless
The accuracy of screening tests is highly dependent on the infection rate
The strange power of complex analysis
Remembering “Euler’s spoilers,” who showed that special magic squares exist
BEAM program manager Ruthi Hortsch shares her love of Faltings’s theorem
This mathematician turns her research into fashion and toys
Using gravitational waves to approximate pi, physicists see no problem with Einstein’s theory
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