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, December 8, 2023
‘A-Team’ of Math Proves a Critical Link Between Addition and Sets
Plus: Cartoonishly absurd complexity; Explaining the Stern-Gerlach experiment; How addiction rewires the brain; New Quanta Science Podcast
'A-Team' of Math Proves a Critical Link Between Addition and Sets
By LEILA SLOMAN
A team of four prominent mathematicians, including two Fields medalists, proved a conjecture described as a "holy grail of additive combinatorics." Within a month, a loose collaboration verified it with a computer-assisted proof.
An Easy-Sounding Problem Yields Numbers Too Big for Our Universe
By BEN BRUBAKER
The reachability problem for vector addition systems can be explained simply to a kindergartner, but it quickly becomes hard to solve. Computer scientists have finally found how complex this problem can get.
The (Often) Overlooked Experiment That Revealed the Quantum World
By ZACK SAVITSKY
A century ago, the Stern-Gerlach experiment established the truth of quantum mechanics. Now it's being used to probe the clash of quantum theory and gravity.
She Studies How Addiction Hijacks Learning in the Brain
By YASEMIN SAPLAKOGLU
Erin Calipari works to understand how drugs like opioids and cocaine alter learning circuits and neurochemistry in one of the country's epicenters of substance use disorder and addiction.
Exoplanets Could Help Us Learn How Planets Make Magnetism
By JONATHAN O'CALLAGHAN; Podcast hosted by SUSAN VALOT
New observations of a faraway rocky world that might have its own magnetic field could help astronomers understand the seemingly haphazard magnetic fields swaddling our solar system's planets.
