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Father-Son Team Solves Geometry Problem With Infinite Folds

April 4, 2022

The result could help researchers answer a larger question about flattening objects from the fourth dimension to the third dimension.

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In Music and Math, Lillian Pierce Builds Landscapes

March 30, 2022

Lillian Pierce wants to transform access to the world of mathematics, while making headway on problems that bridge the discrete and continuous.

What a Math Party Game Tells Us About Graph Theory

March 24, 2022

Play this simple math game with your friends to gain insights into fundamental principles of graph theory.

Dennis Sullivan, Uniter of Topology and Chaos, Wins the Abel Prize

March 23, 2022

The American mathematician invented entire new ways to understand shapes and spaces.

Deep Curiosity Inspires The Joy of Why Podcast

March 17, 2022

The noted mathematician and author Steven Strogatz explains how the conversations with experts in his new Quanta Magazine podcast address his lifelong fascination with timeless mysteries.

Math’s ‘Oldest Problem Ever’ Gets a New Answer

March 9, 2022

A new proof significantly strengthens a decades-old result about the ubiquity of ways to represent whole numbers as sums of unit fractions.

In New Math Proofs, Artificial Intelligence Plays to Win

March 7, 2022

A new computer program fashioned after artificial intelligence systems like AlphaGo has solved several open problems in combinatorics and graph theory.

How We Can Make Sense of Chaos

March 2, 2022

Dynamical systems can be chaotic and impossible to predict, but mathematicians have discovered tools to help understand them.

Play First and Lose: Zugzwang in Chess, Math and Pizzas

February 22, 2022

How to win games by going second and leaving your opponent with no good options.

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