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tag">2023</a>, <a href="https://mathvoices.ams.org/featurecolumn/category/algebra-and-number-theory/" rel="category tag">Algebra and Number Theory</a>, <a href="https://mathvoices.ams.org/featurecolumn/category/discrete-math-and-combinatorics/" rel="category tag">Discrete Math and Combinatorics</a>, <a href="https://mathvoices.ams.org/featurecolumn/category/math-and-social-sciences/" rel="category tag">Math and Social Sciences</a>, <a href="https://mathvoices.ams.org/featurecolumn/category/columnists/sarah-wolff/" rel="category tag">Sarah Wolff</a> </div> <div class="entry-byline-block entry-byline-tags"> <span class="entry-byline-label">Tagged:</span> <a href="https://mathvoices.ams.org/featurecolumn/tag/persi-diaconis/" rel="tag">persi diaconis</a>, <a href="https://mathvoices.ams.org/featurecolumn/tag/representation-theory/" rel="tag">representation theory</a>, <a href="https://mathvoices.ams.org/featurecolumn/tag/voting/" rel="tag">voting</a> </div> <div class="entry-byline-block entry-byline-comments"> <span class="entry-byline-label">With:</span> <a href="https://mathvoices.ams.org/featurecolumn/2023/11/01/what-i-think-about-when-i-think-about-voting/#respond" class="comments-link" itemprop="discussionURL">0 Comments</a> </div><span class="entry-publisher" itemprop="publisher" itemscope="itemscope" itemtype="https://schema.org/Organization"><meta itemprop="name" content="Feature Column"><span itemprop="logo" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/ImageObject"><meta itemprop="url" content=""><meta itemprop="width" content=""><meta itemprop="height" content=""></span></span></div> <div class="entry-summary" itemprop="description"><p>Inevitably, I think back to my favorite result in mathematics: when Diaconis used the representation theory of the symmetric group to show us that psychologists just don’t get along… What I Think About When I Think About Voting Sarah Wolff Denison University It’s November. Here in Ohio, that means cozy<span class="more-link"><a href="https://mathvoices.ams.org/featurecolumn/2023/11/01/what-i-think-about-when-i-think-about-voting/">Read More →</a></span></p> </div> </div> </div> </article> <article id="post-1806" class="entry author-uwhitcher post-1806 post type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail category-112 category-discrete-math-and-combinatorics category-joseph-malkevitch category-math-and-technology tag-error-correcting-codes archive-block archive-block2 hcolumn-1-2" itemscope="itemscope" itemtype="https://schema.org/BlogPosting" itemprop="blogPost"> <div class="entry-grid hgrid"> <div itemprop="image" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/ImageObject" class="entry-featured-img-wrap"><meta itemprop="url" content="https://i0.wp.com/mathvoices.ams.org/featurecolumn/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/cropped-FC1380x500x2.png?resize=690%2C288&ssl=1"><meta itemprop="width" content="690"><meta itemprop="height" content="288"><a href="https://mathvoices.ams.org/featurecolumn/2023/10/01/correcting-errors/" class="entry-featured-img-link"><img width="690" height="288" src="https://i0.wp.com/mathvoices.ams.org/featurecolumn/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/cropped-FC1380x500x2.png?resize=690%2C288&ssl=1" class="attachment-hoot-large-thumb entry-content-featured-img entry-grid-featured-img wp-post-image" alt="Feature Column" itemscope="" decoding="async" srcset="https://i0.wp.com/mathvoices.ams.org/featurecolumn/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/cropped-FC1380x500x2.png?resize=690%2C288&ssl=1 690w, https://i0.wp.com/mathvoices.ams.org/featurecolumn/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/cropped-FC1380x500x2.png?zoom=2&resize=690%2C288&ssl=1 1380w" sizes="(max-width: 690px) 100vw, 690px" itemprop="image" /></a></div> <div class="entry-grid-content"> <header class="entry-header"> <h2 class="entry-title" itemprop="headline"><a href="https://mathvoices.ams.org/featurecolumn/2023/10/01/correcting-errors/" rel="bookmark" itemprop="url">Correcting Errors</a></h2> </header> <div class="screen-reader-text" itemprop="datePublished" itemtype="https://schema.org/Date">2023-10-01</div> <div class="entry-byline"> <div class="entry-byline-block entry-byline-author"> <span class="entry-byline-label">By:</span> <span class="entry-author" itemprop="author" itemscope="itemscope" itemtype="https://schema.org/Person"><a href="https://mathvoices.ams.org/featurecolumn/author/uwhitcher/" title="Posts by Ursula Whitcher" rel="author" class="url fn n" itemprop="url"><span itemprop="name">Ursula Whitcher</span></a></span> </div> <div class="entry-byline-block entry-byline-date"> <span class="entry-byline-label">On:</span> <time class="entry-published updated" datetime="2023-10-01T00:01:27-04:00" itemprop="datePublished" title="Sunday, October 1, 2023, 12:01 am">October 1, 2023</time> </div> <div class="entry-byline-block entry-byline-cats"> <span class="entry-byline-label">In:</span> <a href="https://mathvoices.ams.org/featurecolumn/category/2023/" rel="category tag">2023</a>, <a href="https://mathvoices.ams.org/featurecolumn/category/discrete-math-and-combinatorics/" rel="category tag">Discrete Math and Combinatorics</a>, <a href="https://mathvoices.ams.org/featurecolumn/category/columnists/joseph-malkevitch/" rel="category tag">Joseph Malkevitch</a>, <a href="https://mathvoices.ams.org/featurecolumn/category/math-and-technology/" rel="category tag">Math and Technology</a> </div> <div class="entry-byline-block entry-byline-tags"> <span class="entry-byline-label">Tagged:</span> <a href="https://mathvoices.ams.org/featurecolumn/tag/error-correcting-codes/" rel="tag">error correcting codes</a> </div> <div class="entry-byline-block entry-byline-comments"> <span class="entry-byline-label">With:</span> <a href="https://mathvoices.ams.org/featurecolumn/2023/10/01/correcting-errors/#comments" class="comments-link" itemprop="discussionURL">1 Comment</a> </div><span class="entry-publisher" itemprop="publisher" itemscope="itemscope" itemtype="https://schema.org/Organization"><meta itemprop="name" content="Feature Column"><span itemprop="logo" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/ImageObject"><meta itemprop="url" content=""><meta itemprop="width" content=""><meta itemprop="height" content=""></span></span></div> <div class="entry-summary" itemprop="description"><p>Who might have realized that when the mathematics community studied the properties of cubes, they might be used in error correction technology? Correcting Errors Joe Malkevitch York College (CUNY) Introduction Humans sometimes make errors. Perhaps you have been sloppy with a calculation on a mathematics examination. You made an error.<span class="more-link"><a href="https://mathvoices.ams.org/featurecolumn/2023/10/01/correcting-errors/">Read More →</a></span></p> </div> </div> </div> </article> <article id="post-1689" class="entry author-uwhitcher post-1689 post type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail category-112 category-bill-casselman category-discrete-math-and-combinatorics tag-tilings archive-block archive-block2 hcolumn-1-2" itemscope="itemscope" itemtype="https://schema.org/BlogPosting" itemprop="blogPost"> <div class="entry-grid hgrid"> <div itemprop="image" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/ImageObject" class="entry-featured-img-wrap"><meta itemprop="url" content="https://i0.wp.com/mathvoices.ams.org/featurecolumn/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/cropped-FC1380x500x2.png?resize=690%2C288&ssl=1"><meta itemprop="width" content="690"><meta itemprop="height" content="288"><a href="https://mathvoices.ams.org/featurecolumn/2023/06/01/hat-tricks/" class="entry-featured-img-link"><img width="690" height="288" src="https://i0.wp.com/mathvoices.ams.org/featurecolumn/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/cropped-FC1380x500x2.png?resize=690%2C288&ssl=1" class="attachment-hoot-large-thumb entry-content-featured-img entry-grid-featured-img wp-post-image" alt="Feature Column" itemscope="" decoding="async" srcset="https://i0.wp.com/mathvoices.ams.org/featurecolumn/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/cropped-FC1380x500x2.png?resize=690%2C288&ssl=1 690w, https://i0.wp.com/mathvoices.ams.org/featurecolumn/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/cropped-FC1380x500x2.png?zoom=2&resize=690%2C288&ssl=1 1380w" sizes="(max-width: 690px) 100vw, 690px" itemprop="image" /></a></div> <div class="entry-grid-content"> <header class="entry-header"> <h2 class="entry-title" itemprop="headline"><a href="https://mathvoices.ams.org/featurecolumn/2023/06/01/hat-tricks/" rel="bookmark" itemprop="url">Hat Tricks</a></h2> </header> <div class="screen-reader-text" itemprop="datePublished" itemtype="https://schema.org/Date">2023-06-01</div> <div class="entry-byline"> <div class="entry-byline-block entry-byline-author"> <span class="entry-byline-label">By:</span> <span class="entry-author" itemprop="author" itemscope="itemscope" itemtype="https://schema.org/Person"><a href="https://mathvoices.ams.org/featurecolumn/author/uwhitcher/" title="Posts by Ursula Whitcher" rel="author" class="url fn n" itemprop="url"><span itemprop="name">Ursula Whitcher</span></a></span> </div> <div class="entry-byline-block entry-byline-date"> <span class="entry-byline-label">On:</span> <time class="entry-published updated" datetime="2023-06-01T00:01:41-04:00" itemprop="datePublished" title="Thursday, June 1, 2023, 12:01 am">June 1, 2023</time> </div> <div class="entry-byline-block entry-byline-cats"> <span class="entry-byline-label">In:</span> <a href="https://mathvoices.ams.org/featurecolumn/category/2023/" rel="category tag">2023</a>, <a href="https://mathvoices.ams.org/featurecolumn/category/columnists/bill-casselman/" rel="category tag">Bill Casselman</a>, <a href="https://mathvoices.ams.org/featurecolumn/category/discrete-math-and-combinatorics/" rel="category tag">Discrete Math and Combinatorics</a> </div> <div class="entry-byline-block entry-byline-tags"> <span class="entry-byline-label">Tagged:</span> <a href="https://mathvoices.ams.org/featurecolumn/tag/tilings/" rel="tag">tilings</a> </div> <div class="entry-byline-block entry-byline-comments"> <span class="entry-byline-label">With:</span> <a href="https://mathvoices.ams.org/featurecolumn/2023/06/01/hat-tricks/#respond" class="comments-link" itemprop="discussionURL">0 Comments</a> </div><span class="entry-publisher" itemprop="publisher" itemscope="itemscope" itemtype="https://schema.org/Organization"><meta itemprop="name" content="Feature Column"><span itemprop="logo" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/ImageObject"><meta itemprop="url" content=""><meta itemprop="width" content=""><meta itemprop="height" content=""></span></span></div> <div class="entry-summary" itemprop="description"><p>Up until recently, all known aperiodic tilings used a minimum of two shapes, and it has long been a major problem to find a tiling that uses just one. Quite recently this problem has been solved, although only with a qualification… Hat Tricks Bill Casselman University of British Columbia “But<span class="more-link"><a href="https://mathvoices.ams.org/featurecolumn/2023/06/01/hat-tricks/">Read More →</a></span></p> </div> </div> </div> </article> <article id="post-1393" class="entry author-daustin post-1393 post type-post status-publish format-standard category-4 category-david-austin category-discrete-math-and-combinatorics category-probability-and-statistics category-uncategorized tag-cryptography tag-gerrymandering tag-markov-chains tag-persi-diaconis archive-block archive-block2 hcolumn-1-2" itemscope="itemscope" itemtype="https://schema.org/BlogPosting" itemprop="blogPost"> <div class="entry-grid hgrid"> <div class="entry-grid-content"> <header class="entry-header"> <h2 class="entry-title" itemprop="headline"><a href="https://mathvoices.ams.org/featurecolumn/2022/11/01/decoding-gerrymanders-and-markov-chains/" rel="bookmark" itemprop="url">Decoding, Gerrymanders, and Markov Chains</a></h2> </header> <div class="screen-reader-text" itemprop="datePublished" itemtype="https://schema.org/Date">2022-11-01</div> <div class="entry-byline"> <div class="entry-byline-block entry-byline-author"> <span class="entry-byline-label">By:</span> <span class="entry-author" itemprop="author" itemscope="itemscope" itemtype="https://schema.org/Person"><a href="https://mathvoices.ams.org/featurecolumn/author/daustin/" title="Posts by David Austin" rel="author" class="url fn n" itemprop="url"><span itemprop="name">David Austin</span></a></span> </div> <div class="entry-byline-block entry-byline-date"> <span class="entry-byline-label">On:</span> <time class="entry-published updated" datetime="2022-11-01T00:01:12-04:00" itemprop="datePublished" title="Tuesday, November 1, 2022, 12:01 am">November 1, 2022</time> </div> <div class="entry-byline-block entry-byline-cats"> <span class="entry-byline-label">In:</span> <a href="https://mathvoices.ams.org/featurecolumn/category/2022/" rel="category tag">2022</a>, <a href="https://mathvoices.ams.org/featurecolumn/category/columnists/david-austin/" rel="category tag">David Austin</a>, <a href="https://mathvoices.ams.org/featurecolumn/category/discrete-math-and-combinatorics/" rel="category tag">Discrete Math and Combinatorics</a>, <a href="https://mathvoices.ams.org/featurecolumn/category/probability-and-statistics/" rel="category tag">Probability and Statistics</a>, <a href="https://mathvoices.ams.org/featurecolumn/category/uncategorized/" rel="category tag">Uncategorized</a> </div> <div class="entry-byline-block entry-byline-tags"> <span class="entry-byline-label">Tagged:</span> <a href="https://mathvoices.ams.org/featurecolumn/tag/cryptography/" rel="tag">cryptography</a>, <a href="https://mathvoices.ams.org/featurecolumn/tag/gerrymandering/" rel="tag">gerrymandering</a>, <a href="https://mathvoices.ams.org/featurecolumn/tag/markov-chains/" rel="tag">Markov chains</a>, <a href="https://mathvoices.ams.org/featurecolumn/tag/persi-diaconis/" rel="tag">persi diaconis</a> </div> <div class="entry-byline-block entry-byline-comments"> <span class="entry-byline-label">With:</span> <a href="https://mathvoices.ams.org/featurecolumn/2022/11/01/decoding-gerrymanders-and-markov-chains/#respond" class="comments-link" itemprop="discussionURL">0 Comments</a> </div><span class="entry-publisher" itemprop="publisher" itemscope="itemscope" itemtype="https://schema.org/Organization"><meta itemprop="name" content="Feature Column"><span itemprop="logo" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/ImageObject"><meta itemprop="url" content=""><meta itemprop="width" content=""><meta itemprop="height" content=""></span></span></div> <div class="entry-summary" itemprop="description"><p>Decoding, Gerrymanders, and Markov Chains David Austin Grand Valley State University In 2009, crypto miner James Howells of southern Wales mistakenly threw away a hard drive containing 8,000 bitcoins. That’s over $100 million even in today’s sinking crypto landscape. Thirteen years later, Howells has a plan, backed by venture capital,<span class="more-link"><a href="https://mathvoices.ams.org/featurecolumn/2022/11/01/decoding-gerrymanders-and-markov-chains/">Read More →</a></span></p> </div> </div> </div> </article> <article id="post-1291" class="entry author-uwhitcher post-1291 post type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail category-4 category-algebra-and-number-theory category-discrete-math-and-combinatorics category-ursula-whitcher tag-fields-medal tag-lattices-groups tag-maryna-viazovska tag-sphere-packing archive-block archive-block2 hcolumn-1-2" itemscope="itemscope" itemtype="https://schema.org/BlogPosting" itemprop="blogPost"> <div class="entry-grid hgrid"> <div itemprop="image" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/ImageObject" class="entry-featured-img-wrap"><meta itemprop="url" content="https://i0.wp.com/mathvoices.ams.org/featurecolumn/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/03/cropped-cropped-mathvoices-banner-feat-col-1.png?resize=690%2C279&ssl=1"><meta itemprop="width" content="690"><meta itemprop="height" content="279"><a href="https://mathvoices.ams.org/featurecolumn/2022/09/01/eight-dimensional-spheres-and-the-exceptional-e_8/" class="entry-featured-img-link"><img width="690" height="279" src="https://i0.wp.com/mathvoices.ams.org/featurecolumn/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/03/cropped-cropped-mathvoices-banner-feat-col-1.png?resize=690%2C279&ssl=1" class="attachment-hoot-large-thumb entry-content-featured-img entry-grid-featured-img wp-post-image" alt="Banner for the AMS Feature Column" itemscope="" decoding="async" loading="lazy" itemprop="image" /></a></div> <div class="entry-grid-content"> <header class="entry-header"> <h2 class="entry-title" itemprop="headline"><a href="https://mathvoices.ams.org/featurecolumn/2022/09/01/eight-dimensional-spheres-and-the-exceptional-e_8/" rel="bookmark" itemprop="url">Eight-dimensional spheres and the exceptional $E_8$</a></h2> </header> <div class="screen-reader-text" itemprop="datePublished" itemtype="https://schema.org/Date">2022-09-01</div> <div class="entry-byline"> <div class="entry-byline-block entry-byline-author"> <span class="entry-byline-label">By:</span> <span class="entry-author" itemprop="author" itemscope="itemscope" itemtype="https://schema.org/Person"><a href="https://mathvoices.ams.org/featurecolumn/author/uwhitcher/" title="Posts by Ursula Whitcher" rel="author" class="url fn n" itemprop="url"><span itemprop="name">Ursula Whitcher</span></a></span> </div> <div class="entry-byline-block entry-byline-date"> <span class="entry-byline-label">On:</span> <time class="entry-published updated" datetime="2022-09-01T00:01:01-04:00" itemprop="datePublished" title="Thursday, September 1, 2022, 12:01 am">September 1, 2022</time> </div> <div class="entry-byline-block entry-byline-cats"> <span class="entry-byline-label">In:</span> <a href="https://mathvoices.ams.org/featurecolumn/category/2022/" rel="category tag">2022</a>, <a href="https://mathvoices.ams.org/featurecolumn/category/algebra-and-number-theory/" rel="category tag">Algebra and Number Theory</a>, <a href="https://mathvoices.ams.org/featurecolumn/category/discrete-math-and-combinatorics/" rel="category tag">Discrete Math and Combinatorics</a>, <a href="https://mathvoices.ams.org/featurecolumn/category/columnists/ursula-whitcher/" rel="category tag">Ursula Whitcher</a> </div> <div class="entry-byline-block entry-byline-tags"> <span class="entry-byline-label">Tagged:</span> <a href="https://mathvoices.ams.org/featurecolumn/tag/fields-medal/" rel="tag">Fields medal</a>, <a href="https://mathvoices.ams.org/featurecolumn/tag/lattices-groups/" rel="tag">lattices (groups)</a>, <a href="https://mathvoices.ams.org/featurecolumn/tag/maryna-viazovska/" rel="tag">Maryna Viazovska</a>, <a href="https://mathvoices.ams.org/featurecolumn/tag/sphere-packing/" rel="tag">sphere packing</a> </div> <div class="entry-byline-block entry-byline-comments"> <span class="entry-byline-label">With:</span> <a href="https://mathvoices.ams.org/featurecolumn/2022/09/01/eight-dimensional-spheres-and-the-exceptional-e_8/#respond" class="comments-link" itemprop="discussionURL">0 Comments</a> </div><span class="entry-publisher" itemprop="publisher" itemscope="itemscope" itemtype="https://schema.org/Organization"><meta itemprop="name" content="Feature Column"><span itemprop="logo" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/ImageObject"><meta itemprop="url" content=""><meta itemprop="width" content=""><meta itemprop="height" content=""></span></span></div> <div class="entry-summary" itemprop="description"><p>What is the $E_8$ lattice that appears in Viazovska's proof? What makes it special? How do you use it to pack spheres? Eight-dimensional spheres and the exceptional $E_8$ Ursula Whitcher Mathematical Reviews (AMS) In Helsinki this summer, Ukrainian mathematician Maryna Viazovska was awarded a Fields Medal "for the proof that<span class="more-link"><a href="https://mathvoices.ams.org/featurecolumn/2022/09/01/eight-dimensional-spheres-and-the-exceptional-e_8/">Read More →</a></span></p> </div> </div> </div> </article> <article id="post-920" class="entry author-uwhitcher post-920 post type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail category-4 category-discrete-math-and-combinatorics category-math-and-the-sciences category-ursula-whitcher tag-adinkras tag-physics tag-supersymmetry archive-block archive-block2 hcolumn-1-2" itemscope="itemscope" itemtype="https://schema.org/BlogPosting" itemprop="blogPost"> <div class="entry-grid hgrid"> <div itemprop="image" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/ImageObject" class="entry-featured-img-wrap"><meta itemprop="url" content="https://i0.wp.com/mathvoices.ams.org/featurecolumn/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/03/cropped-cropped-mathvoices-banner-feat-col-1.png?resize=690%2C279&ssl=1"><meta itemprop="width" content="690"><meta itemprop="height" content="279"><a href="https://mathvoices.ams.org/featurecolumn/2022/05/01/designing-supersymmetry/" class="entry-featured-img-link"><img width="690" height="279" src="https://i0.wp.com/mathvoices.ams.org/featurecolumn/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/03/cropped-cropped-mathvoices-banner-feat-col-1.png?resize=690%2C279&ssl=1" class="attachment-hoot-large-thumb entry-content-featured-img entry-grid-featured-img wp-post-image" alt="Banner for the AMS Feature Column" itemscope="" decoding="async" loading="lazy" itemprop="image" /></a></div> <div class="entry-grid-content"> <header class="entry-header"> <h2 class="entry-title" itemprop="headline"><a href="https://mathvoices.ams.org/featurecolumn/2022/05/01/designing-supersymmetry/" rel="bookmark" itemprop="url">Designing supersymmetry</a></h2> </header> <div class="screen-reader-text" itemprop="datePublished" itemtype="https://schema.org/Date">2022-05-01</div> <div class="entry-byline"> <div class="entry-byline-block entry-byline-author"> <span class="entry-byline-label">By:</span> <span class="entry-author" itemprop="author" itemscope="itemscope" itemtype="https://schema.org/Person"><a href="https://mathvoices.ams.org/featurecolumn/author/uwhitcher/" title="Posts by Ursula Whitcher" rel="author" class="url fn n" itemprop="url"><span itemprop="name">Ursula Whitcher</span></a></span> </div> <div class="entry-byline-block entry-byline-date"> <span class="entry-byline-label">On:</span> <time class="entry-published updated" datetime="2022-05-01T00:01:03-04:00" itemprop="datePublished" title="Sunday, May 1, 2022, 12:01 am">May 1, 2022</time> </div> <div class="entry-byline-block entry-byline-cats"> <span class="entry-byline-label">In:</span> <a href="https://mathvoices.ams.org/featurecolumn/category/2022/" rel="category tag">2022</a>, <a href="https://mathvoices.ams.org/featurecolumn/category/discrete-math-and-combinatorics/" rel="category tag">Discrete Math and Combinatorics</a>, <a href="https://mathvoices.ams.org/featurecolumn/category/math-and-the-sciences/" rel="category tag">Math and the Sciences</a>, <a href="https://mathvoices.ams.org/featurecolumn/category/columnists/ursula-whitcher/" rel="category tag">Ursula Whitcher</a> </div> <div class="entry-byline-block entry-byline-tags"> <span class="entry-byline-label">Tagged:</span> <a href="https://mathvoices.ams.org/featurecolumn/tag/adinkras/" rel="tag">Adinkras</a>, <a href="https://mathvoices.ams.org/featurecolumn/tag/physics/" rel="tag">physics</a>, <a href="https://mathvoices.ams.org/featurecolumn/tag/supersymmetry/" rel="tag">supersymmetry</a> </div> <div class="entry-byline-block entry-byline-comments"> <span class="entry-byline-label">With:</span> <a href="https://mathvoices.ams.org/featurecolumn/2022/05/01/designing-supersymmetry/#respond" class="comments-link" itemprop="discussionURL">0 Comments</a> </div><span class="entry-publisher" itemprop="publisher" itemscope="itemscope" itemtype="https://schema.org/Organization"><meta itemprop="name" content="Feature Column"><span itemprop="logo" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/ImageObject"><meta itemprop="url" content=""><meta itemprop="width" content=""><meta itemprop="height" content=""></span></span></div> <div class="entry-summary" itemprop="description"><p>Studying supersymmetry in physically realistic situations requires a tremendous amount of physical and mathematical sophistication. 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