Take a self-guided tour from quantum to cosmos!
Science helps us understand ourselves and our own place in the cosmos.
But how far does the math take us? And what do science and the humanities tell us when we look at the same questions from different points of view?
At Canada’s Stratford Festival, Perimeter Institute Director Neil Turok joined science writer Margaret Wertheim and philosopher Mark Kingwell for a discussion on life, the universe, and everything.
Hosted by Paul Kennedy, the show aired in November 2016 as part of CBC Ideas.
Ask any public health expert: testing is key to beating COVID-19. Perimeter’s Neil Turok is working with colleagues from the African Institute for Mathematical Sciences on a new way to test more people with fewer tests. Their work was just published in Nature.
What drives us is our unbridled curiosity and appreciation of the extravagant beauty and simplicity inherent in nature.
A century ago, Emmy Noether published a theorem that would change mathematics and physics. Here’s an all-ages guided tour through this groundbreaking idea.
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