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, January 26, 2024
The Quest to Decode the Mandelbrot Set
Plus: Hints of LLM understanding; 'The Joy of Why' returns; Galactic "habitable zones"; The cerebellum's complex rule; New Quanta Science Podcast
The Quest to Decode the Mandelbrot Set, Math's Famed Fractal
By JORDANA CEPELEWICZ
For decades, a small group of mathematicians has patiently unraveled the mystery of what was once math's most popular picture. Their story shows how technology transforms even the most abstract mathematical landscapes.
Why Locusts Swarm, Humans Do Good and Time Marches On
By JANNA LEVIN
"The Joy of Why" podcast returns for a third season as a coproduction of Quanta and PRX, with two co-hosts, 24 brilliant guests and 24 all-new episodes beginning next week.
The Surprisingly Simple Math Behind Puzzling Matchups
By PATRICK HONNER
The transitive property of math is so foundational, you might use it regularly without even noticing it. When it's removed from a problem, solving it can be tricky.
An Old Conjecture Falls, Making Spheres a Lot More Complicated
By KEVIN HARTNETT; Podcast hosted by SUSAN VALOT
The telescope conjecture gave mathematicians a handle on ways to map one sphere to another. Now that it has been disproved, the universe of shapes has exploded.
