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Early in his new book, physics historian Graham Farmelo quotes Nima Arkani-Hamed, a theoretical physicist at the Institute for Advanced Study (IAS) in Princeton, N.J.: “We can eavesdrop on nature not ...

Specialized A redesigned A-level maths could focus on the needs of physics and non-physics students. (Courtesy: iStock/SolStock) Early in my teaching career, I had a rather uncomfortable exchange with ...

His unifying disparate theoretical realms helped revolutionize our understanding of the most basic structure of the universe. By Julie Rehmeyer Isadore Singer, who unified large areas of mathematics ...

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Enea Montoli, 33-year-old researcher and high school teacher in Milan, Italy. When one’s passionate about something, it tends to be contagious. Enea Montoli is 33 years old, he holds a PhD in Physics, ...

Top women in mathematics and physics discuss how they got to where they are — and why there aren’t more of them. In an interview with Quanta Magazine last fall, the eminent theoretical physicist Helen ...