Articles by

Leila Sloman

‘Groups’ Underpin Modern Math. Here’s How They Work

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine.Mathematics started with numbers—clear, concrete, intuitive. Over the...

Students Find New Evidence of the Impossibility of Complete Disorder

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine.In late 2017, Ashwin Sah and Mehtaab Sawhney...

An Old Abstract Field of Math Is Unlocking the Deep Complexity of Spacecraft Orbits

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine.In October, a Falcon Heavy rocket is scheduled...

The Fibonacci Numbers Hiding in Strange Spaces

McDuff and Schlenk had been trying to figure out when they could fit a symplectic ellipsoid—an elongated...