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Early in his new book, physics historian Graham Farmelo quotes Nima Arkani-Hamed, a theoretical physicist at the Institute for Advanced Study (IAS) in Princeton, N.J.: “We can eavesdrop on nature not ...

The four Overby siblings have math stars as bookends: My older sister, the former high school mathematics teacher; my younger brother, the civil engineer. Ten years of age separate those two, but part ...

For some people, all math problems are difficult. But for computer scientists, most math problems are easy. The computer does all the work. Sometimes, though, problems come along that even computers ...