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, including Eva Silverstein, former...
Robbert Dijkgraaf, Institute
Director and Leon Levy Professor, discusses the complex
relationship between mathematics and physics with Brady Haran of
Numberphile during the 2017 National Math Festival in Washington,
D.C. Dijkgraaf examines the...
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, including Juan Maldacena, Carl P...
The conflict between the two halves of physics has been brewing
for more than a century—sparked by a pair of 1905 papers by
Einstein, one outlining relativity
and the other introducing the quantum—but recently it has entered
an intriguing...
Proving the Riemann hypothesis remains arguably the most
important unsolved problem in pure mathematics—one whose solution
would fetch a $1 million Millennium Prize from the Clay Mathematics
Institute. Conversely, as the number theorist Enrico...
Mathematics might be more of an environmental science than we realize. Robbert Dijkgraaf, Director and Leon Levy Professor, explores the possibility of developing a new realm of mathematics in order to fully understand the quantum world.
In this month's "Quantized Column," Quanta Magazine's
series in which top researchers explore the process of discovery,
Frank Wilczek, Professor
(1989–2000) and Member (1977–78) in the School of Natural Sciences
and Nobel Laureate in Physics (2004)...
In this video, Edward Witten,
Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics Laureate (2012) and
Charles Simonyi Professor in the School of Natural Sciences,
discusses string theory and the need in physics to reconcile
quantum theory, used for small...
Theoretical physics is full of mind-boggling ideas, but two of
the weirdest are quantum entanglement and wormholes. Juan Maldacena, Carl P. Feinberg
Professor in the School of Natural Sciences, describes how the
weird quantum phenomenon of...