Season 2017 episodes2017-01-05

Season 2017

Explore mind-bending developments in basic science and math research. Quanta Magazine is an award-winning, editorially independent magazine published by the Simons Foundation.

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Episodes

Season 2017

Episode 1

Marcus Feldman: In Search of Actions That Alter Evolution

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Episode 2

Francis Su: Math and the Good Life

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Episode 3

Francis Su: Math Is for Everybody

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Episode 4

Sylvia Serfaty: In Mathematics, ‘You Cannot Be Lied To’

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Episode 5

Season 2017

Season 2017

Marcus Feldman: In Search of Actions That Alter Evolution

Francis Su: Math and the Good Life

Francis Su: Math Is for Everybody

Sylvia Serfaty: In Mathematics, ‘You Cannot Be Lied To’

Sharon Glotzer: ‘Digital Alchemist’ Seeks Rules of Emergence

John Novembre: A Map of Human History, Hidden in DNA

Tim Maudlin: A Defense of the Reality of Time

Journey to the Birth of the Solar System 360 VR

Purvesh Khatri: More Data — the Dirtier the Better

Jessica Flack: How Nature Solves Problems Through Computation

Jay Pasachoff: Eclipse Hunter Reveals the Science That Can Only Be Done in the Dark

How Andrea Ghez Found a Supermassive Black Hole

Svitlana Mayboroda: Taming Rogue Waves

Neil Johnson: A Physicist Who Models ISIS and the Alt-Right

Nigel Goldenfeld: Seeing Emergent Physics Behind Evolution

Rebecca Goldin: Why Math Is the Best Way to Make Sense of the World

Michael Assis: Atomic Origami

Federico Ardila: A Mathematician Who Dances to the Joys and Sorrows of Discovery

Minhyong Kim: Connecting Number Theory to Physics

Corina Tarnita: First Understand Nature’s Rules