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Vox Sentences: Someone tell Mike Pence who his running mate is

Edit Vox 06 Oct 2016
Vox Sentences is your daily digest for what's happening in the world, curated by Dara Lind and Dylan Matthews ... The Gaslight Anthem ... [AFP] The three winners in physics — David Thouless, Duncan Haldane, and John Kosterlitz — worked on applying topology (the field of math that studies which properties of objects are preserved when they're stretched or twisted) to the study of matter at cold or condensed states ... Old and busted ... New hotness....

The Nobel Prize in physics explains why a toilet paper roll and a doughnut are the same

Edit Business Insider 05 Oct 2016
Topology is interested in how many holes there are, not the shape of the object ... All of this falls into the realm of a field called topology. Topology was the key to the Nobel Laureates’ discoveries. Topology is a branch of maths that describes the properties of shapes that only change in terms of how they're arranged in space — not in their shape or size ... This wouldn't change the dough's topological state....

British Trio Wins Nobel Prize In Physics For Study of Exotic Matter

Edit Slashdot 05 Oct 2016
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in Stockholm awarded the prize for "theoretical discoveries of topological phase transitions and topological phases of matter." Topology is a branch of mathematics that describes properties that change only in increments ... Thouless showed that the integers by which the conductivity of electricity could be measured were topological in their nature....

Trio win physics Nobel for work on states of matter

Edit The Times of India 05 Oct 2016
Their research centres on topology , a branch of mathematics involving step-wise changes like making a series of holes in an object ... In the 1980s, Thouless showed that the integers by which the conductivity of electricity could be measured were topological in their nature. Around that time, Haldane discovered how topological concepts could be used to understand the properties of chains of small magnets found in some materials....

Physics Nobel awarded to 3 for '70s, '80s work on matter

Edit Arkansas Online 05 Oct 2016
The $930,000 award was divided with one half going to Thouless and the other half split between Haldane and Kosterlitz for "theoretical discoveries of topological phase transitions and topological phases of matter.". Topology is a branch of mathematics that describes properties of objects ... Their analysis relied on topology, which is the mathematical study of properties that don't change when objects are distorted....

Comment on Student test scores show progress by Benthihi

Edit Star Advertiser 05 Oct 2016
True, but every state has high percentages of ‘high-needs’ students. The declining trend in math performance through 11th grade means that math education (gap between national average and our performance) gets worse as the students go to more difficult subjects such as algebra, trig, and pre-calculus. Even some of the best public schools here are low performers, and don’t motivate even the brightest to do well ... ....

Weird science: 3 win Nobel physics prize for unusual states of matter

Edit Topix 05 Oct 2016
British-born scientists David Thouless, Duncan Haldane and Michael Kosterlitz were awarded this year's Nobel Prize in physics on Tuesday for studies on exotic matter that could result in improved materials for electronics or quantum computers. The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences cited the three for "theoretical discoveries of topological phase transitions and topological phases of matter." ... ....

Nobel Prize in Physics 2016: Secrets of exotic matter revealed

Edit Science Daily 05 Oct 2016
The 2016 Nobel Prize in Physics is being awarded to David J. Thouless, F. Duncan M. Haldane, and J. Michael Kosterlitz "for theoretical discoveries of topological phase transitions and topological phases of matter." ... ....

This 16-year-old kid fell behind in math class, so he built an app to do it for him

Edit Business Insider 05 Oct 2016
Amit Kalra. It was during his freshman year of high school that Amit Kalra started falling behind in math class ... Kalra, now 16, had been transferred to a new school where he was put into an algebra class he had already taken ... That's because it's specifically made to take the guesswork out of algebra, geometry, calculus, and other subjects, by allowing users to input the values into the given formula, letting the app do the rest ... ....

Roman Harper works as a high school substitute teacher

Edit The Times Picayune 05 Oct 2016
New Orleans Saints safety Roman Harper spent his Wednesday working as a high school substitute teacher. He arrived unannounced at Belle Chasse High School and picked up the lesson plan in algebra, sociology and psychology classes ... I'm just a substitute." ... #WhoDat ... ....

Bagels and buns: The research that won the 2016 Nobel Prize for Physics explained

Edit TechRadar 05 Oct 2016
There's a field of study called topology that looks at the geometrical properties of objects - and which of those properties are preserved when you stretch or twist that object ... Using topology, the trio were able to show how extremely cold films of helium were able to change into different forms of matter, and how those changes then altered their electrical and magnetic properties....

Brown professor part of trio to win physics Nobel

Edit Boston Herald 05 Oct 2016
Their work could help lead to more powerful computers and improved materials for electronics ... Their work called on an abstract mathematical field called topology, which presents a particular way to describe some properties of matter ... Topology describes properties that can only change in full steps; you can’t have half a hole ... ....

Two AAAS Fellows Among Nobel Prize Winners in Science (AAAS - American Association for the Advancement of Science)

Edit Public Technologies 05 Oct 2016
The laureates earned the prize 'for theoretical discoveries of topological phase transitions and topological phases of matter,' according to the academy ... The three researchers have studied unusual types of matter like superconductors, superfluids, and thin magnetic films using advanced mathematical models including concepts in topology, a branch of ......
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