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

120 points by jandrewrogers 1 year ago | 8 comments

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

124 points by anujbans 5 months ago | 26 comments

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

96 points by digital55 3 years ago | 19 comments

What Is a Particle? (2020)(quantamagazine.org)

184 points by sblank 2 years ago | 163 comments

What could explain the gallium anomaly?(quantamagazine.org)

194 points by ars 2 years ago | 89 comments

Dimension 126 Contains Twisted Shapes, Mathematicians Prove(quantamagazine.org)

134 points by baruchel 1 year ago | 74 comments

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.

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 the Fourier Transform?(quantamagazine.org)

406 points by rbanffy 1 year ago | 179 comments

Quanta Magazine explainer on the Fourier transform, its origins with Joseph Fourier in revolutionary France, and how it decomposes functions into component parts.

Why Math Dumped OpenAI(raymyers.org)

11 points by xeonmc 9 days ago | 0 comments

A blog post by Ray Myers arguing why the mathematics community moved away from OpenAI.

Human mathematicians are being outcounterexampled(xenaproject.wordpress.com)

456 points by artninja1988 3 months ago | 225 comments

A Xena Project blog post about mathematicians being outpaced at finding counterexamples, from the blog on mathematicians learning the Lean theorem prover.

What is entropy? A measure of just how little we know(quantamagazine.org)

339 points by nsoonhui 1 year ago | 146 comments

Quanta Magazine article explaining entropy, 200 years after its introduction, as a measure of ignorance rather than an objective property of the world.