Math Stories for 2020

The Lasting Lessons of John Conway's Game of Life 84
AI Solves Schrodinger's Equation 67
Are Fragments of Energy the Fundamental Building Blocks of the Universe? 99
The Best Way To Win a Horse Race? Mathematicians May Have the Answer 52
Physicists Nail Down the 'Magic Number' That Shapes the Universe 177
South Africa's Lottery Probed As 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 and 10 Drawn 195
Assigning Homework Exacerbates Class Divides, Researchers Find 312
Computer Scientists Achieve 'Crown Jewel' of Cryptography 69
Microsoft Overhauls Excel With Live Custom Data Types 27
Winning Bid: How Auction Theory Took the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics 18
Computer Scientists Break Traveling Salesperson Record 72
Teenager on TiKTok Resurrects an Essential Question: What is Math? 160
'Why Modeling the Spread of COVID-19 Is So Damn Hard' 117
UK Mathematician Wins Richest Prize in Academia For His Work On Stochastic Analysis 21
Mathematicians Finally Answer 2,000-Year-Old Question About Dodecahedrons 31
Could Randomness Theory Hold Key To Internet Security? 50
Decimal Point Error Causes Etsy To Massively Overcharge For Shipping Labels 43
Is There a Sorting Algorithm Faster than Quicksort and Timsort? 130
The Math of Social Distancing Is a Lesson in Geometry 87
Mathematician Ronald Graham Dies At 84 14
The 'Useless' Perspective That Transformed Mathematics 21
Texas Instruments Makes It Harder to Run Programs on its Calculators 126
The Public Do Not Understand Logarithmic Graphs Used To Portray COVID-19 349
Sudoku as Spectator Sport is Unlikely Lockdown Hit 17
Stephen Wolfram Presents a Path to The Fundamental Theory of Physics 166
John Conway, Game of Life Author, Dies At 82 of COVID-19 52
Mathematical Proof of the ABC Conjecture Will Be Published 39
MIT Celebrates 'Pi Day' With Star Wars-Themed Video 10
Freeman Dyson, Visionary Technologist, Is Dead at 96 84
Can You Solve the 'Hanging Cable' Problem, Used as an Amazon Interview Question? 283
Andrew Yang Drops Out of Presidential Race 329
Mathematicians Prove Universal Law of Turbulence 21
EPA Reasoning For Gutting Fuel-Economy Rule Doesn't Hold Up, Senator Finds 93
Major Breakthrough In Quantum Computing Shows That MIP* = RE 28
'Why the Foundations of Physics Have Not Progressed For 40 Years' 231
MIT Scientists Made a Shape-Shifting Material that Morphs Into a Human Face 24
Why Some Rope Knots Hold Better Than Others 45
A Computer Made From DNA Can Compute the Square Root of 900 36

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