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A woman’s name would undermine the credibility of the mission. Names of former Nazis, however, were no problem.
It’s the best-known transcendental number of all-time, and March 14 (3/14 in many countries) is the perfect time to celebrate Pi (π) Day!
They’re not just watching you; they’re also calculating.
With a record-setting $1.9 billion jackpot, you’d think it’s a no-brainer to buy a Powerball ticket. But the math truly shows otherwise.
Holograms preserve all of an object’s 3D information, but on a 2D surface. Could the holographic Universe idea lead us to higher dimensions?
Ethan Mollick, associate professor at the Wharton School, explains why we have to crack the machine-buddy problem.
ATD 2024 challenged us to make moments of recovery part of our daily practice. Here’s how each keynote speaker advised finding that balance.
First derived by Emmy Noether, for every symmetry a theory possesses, there’s an associated conserved quantity. Here’s the profound link.
Does it have a deeper significance — or is it just a number?
Are breakthroughs really a matter of chance, or are they simply waiting to be uncovered by the right person at the right time?
Welcome to The Nightcrawler — a weekly newsletter from Eric Markowitz covering tech, innovation, and long-term thinking.
A human hand has the power to split wooden planks and demolish concrete blocks. A trio of physicists investigated why this feat doesn’t shatter our bones.
The use of the letter x as an unknown is a relatively modern convention.
While ice itself is slick, slippery, and difficult to navigate across under most circumstances, skaters easily glide across the ice.
Ada Lovelace’s skills with language, music, and needlepoint all contributed to her pioneering work in computing.
It’s spooky, and it’s happening all around us. And inside us.
Probability, lacking solid theoretical foundations and burdened with paradoxes, was jokingly called the “theory of misfortune.”
Intellectual humility demands that we examine our motivations for holding certain beliefs.
The solution involves the infamous Navier-Stokes equations, which are so difficult, there is a $1-million prize for solving them.
Parity tasks (such as odd and even categorisation) are considered abstract and high-level numerical concepts in humans.
Those that were the best at math didn’t even show income satiation — there was no upper limit to how much money could make them happy.
The smartest person in the world was Isaac Newton, a true polymath whose brilliance never has been, nor ever will be, surpassed.
The authors call it “wildly theoretical” — but let’s take a look, anyway.
Beyond stars, galaxies, and gravity, studying the fundamental workings of nature reveals widely applicable lessons for learners everywhere.
If you can model anything in the Universe with an equation, mathematics is how you get the solution(s). Physics must go a step further.
A researcher explains a little-known niche within modern physics: animal collective behavior.
Math offers good evidence that humans can solve any problem — as long as there’s money in it.
The game of Plinko perfectly illustrates chaos theory. Even with indistinguishable initial conditions, the outcome is always uncertain.
