The following is an excerpt from The Gravity of Math: How Geometry Rules the Universe by Steve Nadis and Shing-Tung Yau. Copyright 2024. Available from Basic Books ...
Beware of those naysayers – most hardly know what bitcoin is, and most who comment say it is just nerdy math. But, it is math the universe is made from. Have a look at a sunflower or a pinecone. All ...
Ivy Watkins, left, and Catherine Simpson announce ciphering rules at Cedar Ridge Middle School’s annual math tournament. More than 900 students from 37 Alabama schools participated in the Nov. 7 event ...
Science journalist Nadis and Tsinghua University mathematician Yau follow up 2019’s The Shape of a Life with an esoteric exploration of geometry’s role in explaining gravity and the structure of the ...
In his new book, In Pursuit of the Unknown: 17 Equations That Changed the World, Ian Stewart recounts one of the worst jokes in the history of science. You can develop your own setup from first ...