The New New Science, a September 15-18 working group, meets to address what it means to view the humanities as subjects ...

The Poincaré conjecture can be understood by analogy with the case in two dimensions. A two-dimensional space, or surface, is like a bubble made from an infinitely thin film of soap. If the bubble is ...

On its surface, the Kakeya conjecture is a simple statement about rotating needles. But it underlies a wealth of mathematics. In mathematics, a simple problem is often not what it seems. Earlier this ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Most of the contributors to this review forum share with me certain fundamental assumptions concerning the general nature of explanation in ...