Physicists Reveal a Quantum Geometry That Exists Outside of Space and Time(quantamagazine.org)

8 points by pseudolus 2 years ago | 2 comments

Cosmologists Try a New Way to Measure the Shape of the Universe(quantamagazine.org)

30 points by jandrewrogers 1 year ago | 1 comments

New upper bound found for the Heilbronn triangle problem(quantamagazine.org)

31 points by rbanffy 3 years ago | 15 comments

A New Geometry for Einstein's Theory of Relativity(quantamagazine.org)

120 points by jandrewrogers 1 year ago | 8 comments

The Mathematician Who Sculpted the Shape of Space(quantamagazine.org)

96 points by digital55 3 years ago | 19 comments

Alexander Grothendieck Revolutionized 20th-Century Mathematics(quantamagazine.org)

124 points by anujbans 5 months ago | 26 comments

A new pyramid-like shape always lands the same side up(quantamagazine.org)

629 points by robinhouston 1 year ago | 154 comments

Quanta Magazine article about mathematicians constructing a tetrahedron that is stable on only one face, confirming a decades-old conjecture.

Mathematical Origami(mathigon.org)

108 points by signa11 27 days ago | 22 comments

Mathigon page on mathematical origami, showing how to fold Platonic solids and other polyhedra with 3D models and explanations.

Biology might not be quantum, but its math is quantumlike(quantamagazine.org)

112 points by pseudolus 1 month ago | 49 comments

Quanta Magazine article arguing that while biology may not rely on quantum effects, the mathematics describing biological systems resembles quantum math.

What is a manifold?(quantamagazine.org)

335 points by isaacfrond 11 months ago | 117 comments

Quanta Magazine explainer on manifolds, the mathematical spaces conceived by Bernhard Riemann that underpin modern geometry and physics.

Gravity seems holographic. What does that mean for reality?(quantamagazine.org)

267 points by ibobev 1 month ago | 203 comments

Quanta Magazine Qualia column on the holographic nature of gravity and what physicists' discovery that gravity can collapse spatial dimensions implies for reality.

Breakthrough a step toward revealing hidden structure of prime numbers(science.org)

375 points by igitur 2 years ago | 140 comments

Science magazine news article on a breakthrough in number theory toward understanding the hidden structure of prime numbers; capture shows a Cloudflare check.