Steve Nadis

2 weeks ago | quantamagazine.org | Steve Nadis |Kevin Hartnett

Introduction Growing up, Tai-Danae Bradley had no love for math. In 2008, she entered the City College of New York, where she played for the basketball team and hoped to start a career in sports nutrition. She saw her math courses as a curricular hurdle that only geniuses could really excel in. “I’d have rather had all my teeth pulled than do it for a living,” she said. But in her sophomore year, her calculus professor changed her mind.

3 weeks ago | quantamagazine.org | Steve Nadis

For any closed, compact surface — that is, a surface that is finite in diameter and has a distinct inside and outside — mean curvature flow is destined to lead to a singularity. (For a simple sphere, this singularity is the final point the surface shrinks to.) “We have this flow that is supposed to make surfaces simpler, but we know that the flow always becomes singular,” Bamler said.

1 month ago | wired.com | Steve Nadis

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Sometime in the fall of 2021, Andrew Krapivin, an undergraduate at Rutgers University, encountered a paper that would change his life. At the time, Krapivin didn’t give it much thought. But two years later, when he finally set aside time to go through the paper (“just for fun,” as he put it), his efforts would lead to a rethinking of a widely used tool in computer science.

1 month ago | technewstube.com | Steve Nadis

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2 months ago | quantamagazine.org | Ben Brubaker |Steve Nadis |Ingrid Wickelgren |Anil Ananthaswamy

Introduction “Obviously” is a dangerous word, even in scenarios that seem simple. Suppose, for instance, you need to do an important computation. You get to choose between two computers that are almost identical, except that one has an extra hard drive full of precious family photos. It’s natural to assume that the two options are equally good — that an extra drive with no space remaining won’t aid your computation.