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…
Research Reveals the Optimal Way to Optimize
The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. In 1939, upon arriving late to his statistics…
‘A child could have done that’: Literally in the case of Jackson Pollock’s paintings, study finds
‘A child could have done that’ is modern art’s most banal criticism, but in the case of Jackson…
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…
The Future of Antarctic Ice: New Study Reveals the Mathematics of Meltwater Lakes
Newswise — Georgia Tech researchers have developed a mathematical formula to predict the size of lakes that form…
Scientists Create Levitating Disk That Spins For Hours Without Touching Anything
A photograph of a black graphite disk floating above a stack of three, round magnets. (Credit: Adrian Skov…
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…