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Math’s Beautiful Monsters

How a destructive idea paved the way for modern math.

March 28, 2014

Photographing Time

The speed of photography through the ages.

January 13, 2014

Saving Suburbia

Shouldn’t neighborhoods be as diverse as the swamps and forests that surround them?

December 19, 2013

Best of 2013: The Man Who Invented Modern Probability

Chance encounters in the life of Andrei Kolmogorov.

December 12, 2013

Best of 2013: Unhappy Truckers & Other Algorithmic Problems

Transportation optimization starts with math, but ends in understanding human behavior.

December 12, 2013

A.I. Has Grown Up and Left Home

It matters only that we think, not how we think.

December 12, 2013

Have Money, Won’t Travel

Why do investors prefer to put their money to work at home?

December 12, 2013