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WEBFeb 26, 2024 · Headlines and summaries of the latest Science News articles, delivered to your inbox. Science News was founded in 1921 as an independent, nonprofit source of accurate information on the latest ...
‘Is Math Real?’ asks simple questions to explore math’s deepest …
WEBOct 16, 2023 · Is Math Real? Eugenia Cheng. Basic Books, $30. Every mathematician has a story that goes something like this. You’re at a party, and someone asks what you do for a living. “I’m a ...
Take an online journey through the history of math - Science News
WEBJan 18, 2022 · Take an online journey through the history of math. In the ancient Indian text called the Bakhshali Manuscript, a black dot (as seen in the right half of the bottom row) represents zero. Around ...
How two outsiders tackled the mystery of arithmetic progressions
WEBFeb 26, 2024 · Let’s take a moment to get our hands on some sets of numbers and the arithmetic progressions those sets contain, starting with the prime numbers, perennial favorites of math enthusiasts. A prime ...
When art and math collide - Science News
WEBJan 16, 2009 · Mathematical art started for Friedman as a side amusement from his mathematical work, but it has come to be a central part of his life. Art, he believes, should be far more central in education ...
One of the most abstract fields in math finds application in the …
WEBMay 20, 2013 · That last possibility is now proving itself to be dramatically true in the case of category theory, perhaps the most abstract area in all of mathematics. Where math is an abstraction of the real ...
STEM’s racial, ethnic and gender gaps are still strikingly large
WEBApr 14, 2021 · There are large pay gaps among STEM workers by gender, race and ethnicity. The typical salary from 2017 to 2019 for a woman in STEM was about 74 percent of the typical man’s salary in STEM. That ...
How Pythagoras turned math into a tool for understanding reality
WEBMay 9, 2023 · The universe is made from numbers. Pythagoras believed that, at its root, reality was made from numbers. That sounds crazy to modern minds taught that matter is made of atoms and molecules. But in ...
Quantum physics requires imaginary numbers to explain reality
WEBDec 15, 2021 · A theory obeying the rules of quantum physics needs imaginary numbers to describe the real world, two new experiments suggest. Imaginary numbers result from taking the square root of a negative ...
Mathematicians have finally discovered an elusive ‘einstein’ tile
WEBMar 24, 2023 · A 13-sided shape known as “the hat” has mathematicians tipping their caps. It’s the first true example of an “einstein,” a single shape that forms a special tiling of a plane: Like ...