A New AI Math Startup Just Cracked 4 Previously Unsolved Problems
Five years ago, mathematicians Dawei Chen and Quentin Gendron were trying to untangle a difficult area of algebraic…
A Century Later, Ramanujan’s Pi Equations Are Helping Physicists Unlock the Secrets of Nature
In 1914, Indian mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan published a short paper detailing several unusual formulas for calculating the value…
Behold the Manifold, the Concept that Changed How Mathematicians View Space
The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Standing in the middle of a field, we…
Meet The Plant That Learned How To ‘Count’ — A Bioligist Explains
This tiny weed performs real arithmetic in the dark. Here’s how it uses its calculations not only to…
Quantum Physics May Predict the Next Financial Crash, New Study Finds
When Albert Einstein first debated the strange logic of quantum mechanics, he probably didn’t imagine his ideas might one…
The Hidden Math of Ocean Waves
In 2011, Deconinck and Oliveras simulated different disturbances with higher and higher frequencies and watched what happened to…
A 250-Year-Old Theory Learns New Tricks
Physicists have derived a quantum version of Bayes’ rule, revealing how beliefs and probabilities update in the quantum…
Scientists Crack the Code of China’s Mysterious “Matrix Tide”
On China’s Qiantang River, witnesses recently observed an extraordinary “matrix tide,” where colliding tidal bores formed a grid…