Here’s a really interesting mathematical explanation on how the “catch a dollar” trick works. You know the trick: a person holds a bill vertically and says you can keep the bill if you can catch the ...
Scientists have found an elegant explanation for the long-standing Fermi-Pasta-Ulam (FPU) problem, first proposed in 1953, investigated with one of the world’s first digital computers, and now ...
In the new magazine Nautilus, I have an article where I discuss the human tendency to desire elegant mathematical explanations of the world around us, even when these might be overly simple and ...
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