Articles by

Joseph Howlett

The Hidden Math of Ocean Waves

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine.The best perk of Alberto Maspero’s job, he...

A ‘Grand Unified Theory’ of Math Just Got a Little Bit Closer

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine.In 1994, an earthquake of a proof shook...

New Proofs Expand the Limits of What Cannot Be Known

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine.The world of mathematics is full of unreachable...

There’s a New Way to Count Prime Numbers

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine.A new proof has brought mathematicians one step...

Mathematicians Just Debunked the ‘Bunkbed Conjecture’

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine.Much of mathematics is driven by intuition, by...

The Quantum Mechanics of the Greenhouse Effect

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine.In 1896, the Swedish physicist Svante Arrhenius realized...