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My Fantastic Voyage at Quanta Magazine | Quanta Magazine
Introduction Dear Readers, Last July, I read this memo to the staff and explained why I had made the difficult decision to move on from my role as Quanta’s editor-in-chief. This magazine has meant everything to me since I pitched the concept to the Simons Foundation in 2012. Building, growing, nurturing and leading the publication and staff — and being a part of what we’ve collectively accomplished — has been the most remarkable and rewarding experience of my career.
Quanta Relaunches Hyperjumps Math Game | Quanta Magazine
It’s the year 2718. Humanity has invented a warp drive that enables a spacecraft to hyperjump to distant solar systems and back to Earth. The drive promises to revolutionize space exploration. But there’s a catch. The new technology can only make hyperjumps that follow the basic rules of arithmetic. Earth’s governing body has tapped you, an adventurous math explorer, to captain the first warp-drive-equipped starship in its fleet.
Introducing Quanta’s New Math Game, Hyperjumps! | Quanta Magazine
Explore a universe of numbers and arithmetic in our new interactive math game, Hyperjumps! Introduction It’s the year 2111. Humanity has invented a warp drive that enables a spacecraft to hyperjump to distant solar systems and back to Earth. The drive promises to revolutionize space exploration. But there’s a catch. The new technology is finicky and can only make hyperjumps that follow certain numerical rules.
Ukrainian Mathematician Maryna Viazovska Wins Fields Medal | Quanta Magazine
SERIES Introduction In late February, just weeks after Maryna Viazovska learned she had won a Fields Medal — the highest honor for a mathematician — Russian tanks and war planes began their assault on Ukraine, her homeland, and Kyiv, her hometown. Viazovska no longer lived in Ukraine, but her family was still there. Her two sisters, a 9-year-old niece and an 8-year-old nephew set out for Switzerland, where Viazovska now lives.
How Feynman Diagrams Revolutionized Physics | Quanta Magazine
In Theory By Thomas Lin May 14, 2019 In the late 1940s, Richard Feynman invented a visual tool for simplifying particle calculations that forever changed theoretical physics. As one of the most famous physicists of the 20th century, Richard Feynman was known for a lot. Early in his career, he contributed to the development of the first atomic bomb as a group leader of the Manhattan Project.
Quanta Writers and Editors Discuss Big Ideas in Science and Math | Quanta Magazine
Transcript Thomas Lin: Thank you for coming tonight. Welcome to the Simons Foundation Presents panel discussion featuring writers and editors from Quanta Magazine. I’m Thomas Lin; I’m the editor of the magazine, and tonight we have a lot of interesting things to talk about.
Albert Einstein, Holograms and Quantum Gravity | Quanta Magazine
In Theory By Thomas Lin November 14, 2018 In the latest campaign to reconcile Einstein’s theory of gravity with quantum mechanics, many physicists are studying how a higher dimensional space that includes gravity arises like a hologram from a lower dimensional particle theory. How does gravity work at the particle level?
The Universal Pattern Popping Up in Math, Physics and Biology | Quanta Magazine
In Theory By Thomas Lin August 23, 2018 Quanta’s In Theory video series returns with an exploration of a mysterious mathematical pattern found throughout nature. “Hello! I am David Kaplan, and I am not an expert. But I hope in this series to learn as much as possible and explain it to you the best way I can.” So began Quanta Magazine’s In Theory video series, hosted by David Kaplan, a theoretical particle physicist and co-creator of the award-winning documentary Particle Fever.
Helen Quinn on Physics and Education
Before Helen Quinn was a famous theoretical physicist, she thought about becoming a teacher. Now, in the second act of her career, she has come full circle, helping to craft the Next Generation Science Standards, which have been adopted by 17 states plus the District of Columbia. But her path to becoming both a world-class physicist and a leader of science education reform was one she almost didn’t take.
Subhash Khot, Unique Games Conjecturer, Is Awarded Rolf Nevanlinna Prize
Midha has always loved math — it came easily. She suffered some doubts about her abilities in 10th grade, thanks to an algebra teacher who did the standard “chalk and talk” at the blackboard. But during freshman year at Wesleyan University, she took calculus with a professor who considered mathematics to be an art. “Everything he said was so profound,” she recalled. “I was like, ‘Oh, my god. This is the coolest thing ever.’” And that was that.
Subhash Khot, Playing Unique Games in Washington Square Park
SERIES Thinking Places By Thomas Lin +2 authors July 10, 2017 Grand ideas have a way of turning up in unusual settings, far from an office or a chalkboard. Months ago, Quanta Magazine set out to photograph some of the world’s most accomplished scientists and mathematicians in their favorite places to think, tinker and create. This series explores the role of cherished spaces — public or private, spare or crowded, inside or out — in clearing a path to inspiration.
Roberto Peccei and Helen Quinn, Driving Around Stanford in a Clunky Jeep
SERIES Thinking Places By Thomas Lin +2 authors June 15, 2017 Grand ideas have a way of turning up in unusual settings, far from an office or a chalkboard. Months ago, Quanta Magazine set out to photograph some of the world’s most accomplished scientists and mathematicians in their favorite places to think, tinker and create. This series explores the role of cherished spaces — public or private, spare or crowded, inside or out — in clearing a path to inspiration.
Yitang Zhang’s Santa Barbara Beach Walk
SERIES Thinking Places By Thomas Lin +2 authors June 15, 2017 Grand ideas have a way of turning up in unusual settings, far from an office or a chalkboard. Months ago, Quanta Magazine set out to photograph some of the world’s most accomplished scientists and mathematicians in their favorite places to think, tinker and create. This series explores the role of cherished spaces — public or private, spare or crowded, inside or out — in clearing a path to inspiration.
Yitang Zhang’s Santa Barbara Beach Walk
As an adolescent during the Cultural Revolution in China, Yitang Zhang wasn’t allowed to attend high school. Later, in his 30s, he worked odd jobs in the United States and sometimes slept in his car. But Zhang always believed he would solve a great math problem someday. Still, despite becoming one of China’s top math students and completing his doctorate at Purdue University in Indiana, for seven years Zhang could not find work as a mathematician.
A Math Puzzle Worthy of Freeman Dyson | Quanta Magazine
Freeman Dyson — the world-renowned mathematical physicist who helped found quantum electrodynamics with the bongo-playing, Nobel Prize-winning physicist Richard Feynman and others, devised numerous mathematical techniques, led the team that designed a low-power nuclear reactor that produces medical isotopes for research hospitals, dreamed of exploring the solar system in spaceships propelled by nuclear bombs, wrote technical and popular science books, penned dozens of reviews for The New York...
The Nine Schoolgirls Challenge | Quanta Magazine
We care about your data, and we'd like to use cookies to give you a smooth browsing experience. Please agree and read more about our privacy policy. Solve this variation of Thomas Kirkman’s famous 1850 puzzle by arranging girls in walking groups. And think fast — the clock is ticking. Introduction In this simpler variation of Thomas Kirkman’s famous fifteen schoolgirls problem, which he posed in 1850, nine girls in a school walk out in groups of three for four days in a row.
Yitang Zhang and the Mystery of Numbers | Quanta Magazine
As a boy in Shanghai, China, Yitang Zhang believed he would someday solve a great problem in mathematics. In 1964, at around the age of nine, he found a proof of the Pythagorean theorem, which describes the relationship between the lengths of the sides of any right triangle. He was 10 when he first learned about two famous number theory problems, Fermat’s last theorem and the Goldbach conjecture.
A Brazilian Wunderkind Who Calms Chaos | Quanta Magazine
SERIES 2014 Fields Medal and Nevanlinna Prize Artur Avila’s solutions to ubiquitous problems in chaos theory have earned him Brazil’s first Fields Medal. It was pouring rain on a chilly spring day, and Artur Avila was marooned at the University of Paris Jussieu campus, minus the jacket he had misplaced before boarding a red-eye from Chicago.
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