“Unless you’re going to be an engineer or scientist, you’ll never use math”. This is one of the most utterly false statements that I have ever heard. Just as humans use verbal sounds in order to ...
So what could possibly connect aliens and us? A new study suggests the answer is mathematics. The researchers argue that math ...
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This article was originally published at The Conversation. The publication contributed the article to Space.com's Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights. Peter Watson, Emeritus professor, Physics, Carleton ...
Almost 400 years ago, in The Assayer, Galileo wrote: “Philosophy is written in this grand book, the universe … [But the book] is written in the language of mathematics.” He was much more than an ...
HOW CAN mathematics help us understand our lives and predict the world around us? Host Alok Jha speaks to David Sumpter of Uppsala University, Sweden, about the equations that can help people make ...
John von Neumann came about as close as humanly possible to embodying the Platonic ideal of a genius. Conversant in ancient Greek by age 6, the Hungarian made significant mathematical advances in his ...
Mathematics is pretty cool. With it, we are able to describe the universe around us; this tool also allows us to learn more about the universe. But, why? Why is math able to do such a fantastic job at ...
Almost 400 years ago, in The Assayer, Galileo wrote: “Philosophy is written in this grand book, the universe … [But the book] is written in the language of mathematics.” He was much more than an ...