Default Mode: “What Your Brain Is Doing When You’re Not Doing Anything”
Sarah Hart, The Mathematician Who Finds The Poetry In Math And The Math In Poetry
On Translating Real World Problems Into Computational Problems
“The Brain Doesn’t Think The Way You Think It Does”
“Why Sleep Deprivation Kills”
Graduate Student Lisa Piccirillo Solves The Conway Knot
“A.I. That Designs A.I.” Machine Learning Goes Adaptive.
Mathematicians Perfect Multiplication (Of Huge Numbers)
“Four thousand years ago, the Babylonians invented multiplication. Last month, mathematicians perfected it.”
“How The Brain Creates A Timeline Of The Past”
Reimagining Symmetry: Robert Zimmer
“Symmetry is among the first geometric concepts kids encounter in mathematics. Through hands-on manipulation, they see that it’s possible to rotate, flip and slide shapes around and end up with the shape they started with. This preservation of an object under change has a satisfying resonance — it’s a hint of a deep sense of […]