Computers are very powerful tools, but in the simulated world of the computer, everything has to be calculated..

I have an abiding interest in how ordinary people produce knowledge, and what it means for individuals to know the world. I thought I'd be a theoreti….

In the Pythagorean system, thinking about numbers, or doing mathematics, was an inherently masculine task. Mathematics was associated with the gods, ….

Wave particle duality is a core feature of our world. Or rather, we should say, it is a core feature of our mathematical descriptions of our world. B….

One of the great sources of employment for people with Ph.D.s in geometry is the animation industry..

If I could do anything in my life and be remembered for anything, I would like to be remembered for helping the world see the value of physical engag….

All gradients of reality, all existential distinctions, have finally been annihilated..

Mathematicians are proud of the fact that, generally, they do their work with a piece of chalk and a blackboard. They value hand-done proofs above al….

Seeing and playing with physical objects can enable access to symbolic ideas. When I studied physics and math at university it was all done through e….

When you're in a room with twenty people who've all got the True Theory of the universe, it's difficult to know what to do. And the paradox is that s….

Almost all major scientific projects today are huge collaborations, yet we still have this public obsession with the idea of the individual scientifi….

One way to think about a pure hyperbolic surface is that it's the geometric opposite of a sphere. If you look at a sphere, the curvature is the same ….

This is what I call the "cosmological problem" of science. Science has the instrumental function that has given us computers and so on, but its cosmo….

I don't know of any science writing going on in women's magazines, unless you count medical stories about things like breast cancer. I still think th….

Nature rarely does anything mathematically perfect, and naturalism results from imperfections and deviations..

When I was a physics major in the late 1970s, my very few fellow female students and I had high hopes that women would soon stand equal with men in s….

I believe that there is a love that moves the sun and the other stars..

Female physicists, astronomers and mathematicians are up against more than 2,000 years of convention that has long portrayed these fields as inherent….

Simple DNA gradually morphed and evolved, so that you had the coming into being of ever more complex and diverse creatures, until one day you wake up….

As a child it was clear to me that in some sense math was in the world around us. I became fascinated by what this means. When you look at the shape ….

It turns out that hyperbolic structures are very common in nature, and the place where lots of people encounter them is coral reefs. Sea slugs, and a….