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SINGAPORE — Regrets, she's had a few — but they don't keep Carolyn Too up at night. Pain, however, does — a sharp stabbing pain from cancer tumours in her abdomen. "When it gets really bad, I take an ice pack and put it on my stomach until the pain subsides," says the 48-year-old, who was told by her oncologist...
I've supervised a lot of great student projects in my nine years at MIT, but my inner nerdy teenager has never been as personally delighted by a project as it is right now. Today, I'm proud to announce that Adam Yedidia, a PhD student at MIT (but an MEng student when he did most of this work),…
After I wrote recently about Ramanujan’s approximation \(\pi^4\approx 2143/22\), writing “why do powers of \(\pi\) seem to have unusually good rational appro...