In her Australia Day address on Tuesday, quantum physicist Michelle Simmons described the changes as a “disaster”, criticising the replacement of mathematical formulas with discurs­ive questions. She ...

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Breakthroughs in physics sometimes require an assist from the field of mathematics—and vice versa. In 1912, Albert Einstein, then a 33-year-old theoretical physicist at the Eidgenössische Technische ...