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A library of interviews with the world’s biggest thinkers.
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Sometimes too many options lead to disengagement, says the New Shul rabbi.
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A conversation with the founding Rabbi of the New Shul in Manhattan.
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A rock tune celebrating his work has become an Internet hit. But did it please the professor himself?
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As the celebrated mathematician writes his memoirs, he reflects on the combination of good luck, hard luck, and constant dreaming that made his life a success.
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The mathematician has long believed the traditional understanding of market fluctuations would need to be replaced with his fractal model. Unfortunately, he says, “my time…has come.”
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The word “fractals,” which Benoit Mandelbrot invented, has caught on with everyone from kids to club owners.
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The father of fractal geometry marvels that his work has led to computer renderings of natural shapes that are indistinguishable from the real thing.
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The geometry of fractals may be relatively new, but humans—especially artists—have perceived them in nature for ages.
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How a quest to combine aesthetics with mathematics produced one of math’s most famous, and gorgeous, images: the Mandelbrot set.
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What are fractals? The man who invented the term—and the geometry to go along with it—explains how complex natural shapes such as mountains and coastlines can be represented mathematically.
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A conversation with the mathematician and Professor Emeritus at Yale University.
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“We live in an era where science is important to the decisions we make,” the Harvard physicist points out.
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Why the Harvard physicist recently tried her hand at writing a libretto.
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The Harvard physicist describes one of her most surprising moments of discovery.
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The Large Hadron Collider in Switzerland will test some of physicists’ most radical conjectures, from supersymmetry to extra dimensions of space.
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Because dark energy doesn’t dilute as the universe expands, it will ultimately speed up that expansion exponentially, turning the cosmos into a giant void.
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The Harvard scientist explains the daily work of a particle physicist and what problems lie at the cutting edge of her field.
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A conversation with the professor of theoretical physics at Harvard.
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The real issue is not whether we can prove that climate change will or will not occur within 30 years. It’s that we don’t really know for sure, but we […]