Mathematicians Find Hidden Structure in a Common Type of Space
[ad_1] In the fall of 2017, Mehtaab Sawhney, then an undergraduate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, joined a graduate...
Mathematicians Find an Infinity of Possible Black Hole Shapes
[ad_1] The cosmos seems to have a preference for things that are round. Planets and stars tend to be spheres...
Mathematicians Roll the Dice and Get Rock-Paper-Scissors
[ad_1] In their paper, posted online in late November 2022, a key part of the proof involves showing that, for...
Mathematicians Transcend a Geometric Theory of Motion
[ad_1] “[Floer] homology theory depends only on the topology of your manifold. [This] is Floer’s incredible insight,” said Agustin Moreno...
Mathematicians Outwit a Hidden Number ‘Conspiracy’
[ad_1] Intuition tells mathematicians that adding 2 to a number should completely change its multiplicative structure—meaning there should be no...
Mathematicians Finally Prove That Melting Ice Stays Smooth
[ad_1] Drop an ice cube into a glass of water. You can probably picture the way it starts to melt....
A Mathematician’s Guided Tour Through Higher Dimensions
[ad_1] Alternatively, just as we can unfold the faces of a cube into six squares, we can unfold the three-dimensional...
Bored mathematicians just calculated pi to 62.8 trillion digits
[ad_1] Swiss researchers at the University of Applied Sciences Graubünden this week claimed a new world record for calculating the...
Mathematicians Prove Symmetry of Phase Transitions
[ad_1] The presence of conformal invariance has a direct physical meaning: It indicates that the global behavior of the system...
Mathematicians Prove a 2D Version of Quantum Gravity Works
[ad_1] It’s an elegant idea that yields concrete answers only for select quantum fields. No known mathematical procedure can meaningfully...
Mathematicians Settle the Erdős Coloring Conjecture
[ad_1] In the fall of 1972, Vance Faber was a new professor at the University of Colorado. When two influential...
Mathematicians May Have Figured Out How ‘Stone Forests’ Form
[ad_1] There are many wondrous geologic formations in nature, from Giant's Causeway in Ireland to Castleton Tower in Utah, and...
Mathematicians Open a New Front on an Ancient Number Problem
[ad_1] As a high school student in the mid-1990s, Pace Nielsen encountered a mathematical question that he’s still struggling with...
Mathematicians Report New Discovery About the Dodecahedron
[ad_1] Mathematicians have spent more than 2,000 years dissecting the structure of the five Platonic solids—the tetrahedron, cube, octahedron, icosahedron,...
A Mathematician’s Guide to How Contagion Spreads
[ad_1] But the book was also an effort to understand emerging threats in different areas. In recent years, a big...
In Lockdown, Mathematicians Crack a Stubborn Geometry Riddle
[ad_1] In mid-March, the mathematicians Joshua Greene and Andrew Lobb found themselves in the same situation: locked down and struggling...
