Magicians have long taken advantage of obscure mathematical principles in creating interesting puzzles and illusions.
Federico Ardila opens up about his journey as a mathematician, teacher, Colombian transplant, DJ and creator of mathematical spaces.
Powerful new quantitative tools are now available to combat partisan bias in the drawing of voting districts.
Trump/Nunes Story Gets Weirder. Bob Dylan | Nobel Prize. Nepotism, Impeachment & the Freedom Caucus. Tribute to Ahmed Kathrada. Parameter Ghosts.
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Parameter Ghosts is an animation of otherworldly beauty. Technically, it's a random walk through the four-dimensional parameter space of strange attractors.
Top women in mathematics and physics discuss how they got to where they are — and why there aren’t more of them.
For Sylvia Serfaty, mathematics is all about truth and beauty and building scientific and human connections.
In theory, mathematics is neutral – two plus two equals four regardless of what anyone wishes the answer was. But in practice, mathematical algorithms can be formulated and tweaked based on powerful interests.
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It wasn’t until almost a century after Boole’s pioneering work that the world caught up. Both Victor Shestakov at Moscow State University in 1935 and Claude Shannon at MIT in 1937 proposed using Boolean logic to design electrical switches, the latter’s work paving the way for a major shift in electrical engineering in the USA. By late 1948, Shannon had introduced what we now know as information theory, and digital computers soon followed.
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