MathLynx

08/20/2019

https://mitsloan.mit.edu/ideas-made-to-matter/quant-pioneer-james-simons-math-money-and-philanthropy?utm_source=mitsloanfacebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=jimsimons

He excelled in mathematics at MIT, then set his sights on Wall Street. How Jim Simons made billions, and what he’s doing with it.

03/19/2019

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/19/science/karen-uhlenbeck-abel-prize.html

Dr. Uhlenbeck helped pioneer geometric analysis, developing techniques now commonly used by many mathematicians.

03/15/2019

http://turner.faculty.swau.edu/mathematics/materialslibrary/pi/pibases.html

03/15/2019

https://www.geek.com/tech/google-employee-smashes-world-record-for-calculating-pi-1778510/

Emma Haruka Iwao, a Google employee, just broke the world record for calculating the value of pi. On Thursday, Google announced the accomplishment in a blog post, and said that Iwao’s team smashed …

03/02/2019

http://m.nautil.us/issue/69/patterns/the-math-that-takes-newton-into-the-quantum-world

In my 50s, too old to become a real expert, I have finally fallen in love with algebraic geometry. As the name suggests, this is the…

02/10/2019

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=HEfHFsfGXjs

If the answer here doesn't blow your mind, I don't know what will. Part 2: https://youtu.be/jsYwFizhncE Part 3: https://youtu.be/brU5yLm9DZM Home page: https...

12/05/2018

Negative mass?

Scientists at the University of Oxford may have solved one of the biggest questions in modern physics, with a new paper unifying dark matter and dark energy into a single phenomenon: a fluid which possesses 'negative mass." If you were to push a negative mass, it would accelerate towards you. This a...

10/05/2018

"What mathematicians do have in common, what is in a way our foundational habit, is the tiny move Urschel executes between the first thing he says and the second.

We say things, or write them down, in order to see if they feel true. We say it and then we think about it. And whatever’s slightly not right, we circle back and revise, making more precise, shaving off the parts that don’t pass inspection. It’s our process in math and it leaks out into the way we talk about our desks and our lives."

Jordan Ellenberg is a professor of mathematics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the author of How Not To Be Wrong: The Power of Mathematical Thinking

09/01/2018

01/24/2018

https://phys.org/news/2018-01-modern-math-long-standing-debate-viking-age.html

Modern mathematical techniques - similar to those used to analyse social-networking websites - have allowed academics to shed new light on a centuries old debate surrounding the Viking age in Ireland and the famous battle of Clontarf in 1014.

01/10/2018

The mathematician Richard Schwartz finds the hidden depth lurking in simple mathematical puzzles.

01/03/2018

Mathematics, the language of structure & pattern, shows up in remarkable places.

The pre-Columbian empire relied on knotted strings to encode information, a system so complex that scholars are still struggling to decipher it.