In the mid-19th century, Bernhard Riemann conceived of a new way to think about mathematical spaces, providing the foundation ...
If language is what makes us human, what does it mean now that large language models have gained “metalinguistic” abilities?
The theoretical physicist and best-selling author finds inspiration in politics and philosophy for rethinking space and time.
Paulina Rowińska is a science writer with a Ph.D. in mathematics from Imperial College London. Before joining Quanta Magazine as a science writing fellow, she was an editorial intern at ...
Despite their wide variety of sizes, niches and shapes, sharks scale geometrically, pointing to possible fundamental ...
To see how one cube can pass through another, imagine holding a cube over a table and examining its shadow (assuming it’s ...
The recent paper studies algorithmic pricing through the lens of game theory, an interdisciplinary field at the border of ...
The amplituhedron is a geometric shape with an almost mystical quality: Compute its volume, and you get the answer to a central calculation in physics about how particles interact. Now, a young ...
Recent progress in both analog and digital quantum simulations heralds a future in which quantum computers could simulate — and thereby illuminate — physical phenomena that are far too complex for ...
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