Mathematics is out there
Courtesy NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center/Scott Noble; simulation data, d’Ascoli et al, 2018Steve Nadisis a freelance science writer living in Cambridge, Massachusetts. His articles have appeared in numerous magazines, including Quanta, Discover and Astronomy. He is the co-author, most recently, of The Gravity of Math: How Geometry Rules the Universe (2024).Edited byPam Weintraub4,200 wordsSaveMathematicsPhilosophy of sciencePhysicsSYNDICATE THIS ESSAYSaveShareListen to this essay27 minute listenThe equations that govern black holes were true before there were black holes.
- ▪Courtesy NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center/Scott Noble; simulation data, d’Ascoli et al, 2018Steve Nadisis a freelance science writer living in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
- ▪His articles have appeared in numerous magazines, including Quanta, Discover and Astronomy.
- ▪He is the co-author, most recently, of The Gravity of Math: How Geometry Rules the Universe (2024).Edited byPam Weintraub4,200 wordsSaveMathematicsPhilosophy of sciencePhysicsSYNDICATE THIS ESSAYSaveShareListen to this essay27 minute listen
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| Original publisher | Aeon |
| Canonical URL | https://aeon.co/essays/for-sergiu-klainerman-maths-is-a-fact-to-be-divined |
| Publication time | Mon, 18 May 2026 10:00:00 GMT |
| Retrieval time | 2026-05-18T10:04:56.157Z |
| Last seen | 2026-05-18T10:04:59.683Z |
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iMathematics is out thereSergiu Klainerman spent years proving that black holes won’t fly apart; and arguing that maths is not a human inventionby Steve Nadis + BIOA computer simulation of supermassive black holes only 40 orbits from merging, rotating a still version of the simulation through 360 degrees as viewed from the plane of the disk. Courtesy NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center/Scott Noble; simulation data, d’Ascoli et al, 2018Steve Nadisis a freelance science writer living in Cambridge, Massachusetts. His articles have appeared in numerous magazines, including Quanta, Discover and Astronomy.
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