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Inside the Secret Math Society Known Simply as Nicolas Bourbaki
For almost a century, the anonymous members of Nicolas Bourbaki have written books intended as pure expressions of mathematical thought. Antoine Chambert-Loir’s initiation into one of math’s oldest secret societies...
The Cosmologist Who Dreams in the Universe’s Dark Threads
...in humanities, in philosophy, and in math. I realized that in cosmology, I could sort of combine my interests in philosophical questions, applying math to study what happens in the...
Disorder Persists in Larger Graphs, New Math Proof Finds
...of colors you use to perform the coloring. Mathematicians can’t calculate most Ramsey numbers because all but the smallest graphs are too complex to analyze directly. Usually, the best mathematicians...
The Extraordinary Math Hidden in Everyday Life
L. Mahadevan describes how he approaches science and where he finds his ideas. Ken Richardson for Quanta Magazine...
Building the Mathematical Library of the Future
...able to read and formalize math textbooks automatically. But mathematicians are increasing the percentage. While today mathlib contains most of the content through second-year undergraduate math, contributors hope to add...
The Simple Math Problem We Still Can’t Solve
...solve this math problem. You will be tempted. This problem is simply stated, easily understood, and all too inviting. Just pick a number, any number: If the number is even,...
At the Math Olympiad, Computers Prepare to Go for the Gold
...better, two things need to change. First, Lean needs to learn more math. The program draws on a library of mathematics called mathlib, which is growing all the time. Today...
When Math Gets Impossibly Hard
...and use mathematical reasoning and logic to conclude that some outcome is impossible. No amount of luck, persistence, time or skill will make the task possible. The history of mathematics...
Conducting the Mathematical Orchestra From the Middle
...the viola creates a richer orchestral sound, “there’s a sense in which category theory makes mathematics deeper,” she said. The categorical perspective emerged in mathematics in 1945 when Samuel Eilenberg...