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3 weeks ago | 
technewstube.com | Steve Nadis
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3 weeks ago | 
wired.com | Steve Nadis
The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. When she was 10 years old, Rose Yu got a birthday present that would change her life—and, potentially, the way we study physics. Her uncle got her a computer. That was a rare commodity in China 25 years ago, and the gift did not go unused. At first, Yu mainly played computer games, but in middle school she won an award for web design. It was the first of many computer-related honors.
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1 month ago | 
pourlascience.fr | Steve Nadis
Voici un scénario effrayant : vous avez été nommé responsable du contrôle du trafic aérien à l’aéroport Paris - Charles-de-Gaulle. Vous devez vous assurer que chaque avion peut circuler entre la piste et sa porte d’embarquement sans en percuter un autre. Faisons appel aux mathématiques pour résoudre ce problème. Tout d’abord, on crée une grande carte abstraite de l’aéroport. Pour chaque piste, voie de circulation et porte d’embarquement, on dessine un point.
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1 month ago | 
quantamagazine.org | Steve Nadis
Here’s a scary scenario: You’ve been put in charge of air traffic control at Newark airport near New York. You need to make sure every plane can taxi between the runway and its gate without hitting any other planes. Let’s bring the power of mathematics to bear on your problem. First, create a big, abstract map of your airport. For each runway, taxiway and gate, mark a point.
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1 month ago | 
flipboard.com | Steve Nadis
1 hour agoReal leadership begins where certainty ends Daniel was one of the smartest people in the building—strategic, sharp, and relentlessly driven. His numbers spoke for themselves. His bosses loved him. But his team? Not so much. By the time I got the call, his unit was bleeding talent. One exec described …
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2 months ago | 
quantamagazine.org | Steve Nadis
When she was 10 years old, Rose Yu got a birthday present that would change her life — and, potentially, the way we study physics. Her uncle got her a computer. That was a rare commodity in China 25 years ago, and the gift did not go unused. At first, Yu mainly played computer games, but in middle school she won an award for web design. It was the first of many computer-related honors. Yu went on to major in computer science at Zhejiang University, where she won a prize for innovative research.
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2 months 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.
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2 months 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.
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Mar 16, 2025 | 
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.
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Mar 16, 2025 | 
technewstube.com | Steve Nadis
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