A Math Genius Blooms Late and Conquers His Field
WIRED June Huh thought he had no talent for math until a chance meeting with a legendary mind. A decade…
The Mathematician Who Will Make You Fall in Love With Numbers
The ancient Greeks argued that the best life was filled with beauty, truth, justice, play, and love. The mathematician Francis…
How to Build Beautiful 3-D Fractals Out of the Simplest Equations
By folding fractals into 3-D objects, a mathematical duo hopes to gain new insight into simple equations. The post How…
How Humans Can Force the Machines to Play Fair
The computer scientist Cynthia Dwork takes abstract concepts like privacy and fairness and adapts them into machine code for the…
Physicists Uncover Strange Numbers in Particle Collisions
An unexpected connection has emerged between the results of physics experiments and an important, seemingly unrelated set of numbers in…
Meet the New Math, Unlike the Old Math
The latest effort to overhaul math and science education offers a fundamental rethinking of the basic structure of knowledge. But…
Computer Scientists Close In on Perfect, Hack-Proof Code
Computer scientists can prove certain programs to be error-free with the same certainty that mathematicians prove theorems. The post Computer…
Mathematicians Are Building a Unified Theory of Geometric Randomness
Researchers have uncovered deep connections among different types of random objects, illuminating hidden geometric structures. The post Mathematicians Are Building…
After Two Black Holes Collide, a Puzzling Flash
Is the flash just a cosmic coincidence, or will it force astrophysicists to rethink what black holes can do? The…
A New Hope for a Perplexing Mathematical Proof
Three years ago, a solitary mathematician released an impenetrable proof of the famous abc conjecture. At a recent conference dedicated…