Pankaj Sharma is one of the world's premier speakers on Leadership and Personal Mastery. As a presenter, Sharma has the rare ability to electrify an audience yet deliver uncommonly original and useful insights that lead to individuals doing their best work, teams providing superb results and organizations becoming unbeatable.
Pankaj Sharma is also a Research Scientist.
Friday, February 4, 2022
Secrets of Early Animal Evolution Revealed by Chromosome ‘Tectonics’
Large blocks of genes conserved through hundreds of millions of years of evolution hint at how the first animal chromosomes came to be.
A team of mathematicians has solved a 30-year-old question about how solutions to polynomial equations relate to sophisticated geometric objects called Shimura varieties.
The triangle angle sum theorem makes working with triangles easy. But add a dimension to use tetrahedra instead and the problem of predicting their angles becomes much more challenging.
Reality Realized Mixing concepts from relativity and quantum mechanics has puzzling consequences. Amanda Gefter writes for New Scientist about a new idea for reconciling the two: Maybe space-time emerges from communication between quantum particles. Other mystifying quantum-relativistic effects can make cause and effect ambiguous. Some physicists are searching for a theory that abandons the notion of causality altogether, Natalie Wolchover reported for Quanta in 2021.
Cyber Security by Fermat The same mathematics that helped Andrew Wiles solve Fermat's Last Theorem in 1995 is now used in encryption protocols. William J. Broad writes for The New York Times about "elliptic curve cryptography." Studying how elliptical curves intersect rational points was integral to solving Fermat's Theorem. Patrick Honner explained how it was done for Quanta in 2021.
