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Five Short Stories About the Life and Times of Ideas
A complexity theorist explores how science and culture co-evolve.
Ingenious: David Krakauer
The systems theorist explains what’s wrong with standard models of intelligence.
The Amazing, Autotuning Sandpile
A simple mathematical model of a sandpile shows remarkably complex behavior.
The Illusion Machine That Teaches Us How We See
A mathematician is using computers to manufacture award-winning illusions.
Traffic Ghost Hunting
When the biggest problem with traffic is nothing at all.
Impossible Cookware and Other Triumphs of the Penrose Tile
Infinite patterns that never repeat have moved from fantasy to reality.
Math’s Beautiful Monsters
How a destructive idea paved the way for modern math.
The Man Who Invented Modern Probability
Chance encounters in the life of Andrei Kolmogorov.
The Twin Prime Hero
Rags, riches, and fame in mathematics.
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