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Unheralded Mathematician Bridges the Prime Gap
On April 17, a paper arrived in the inbox of Annals of Mathematics, one of the discipline’s preeminent journals. Written by a mathematician virtually unknown to the experts in his...
Janna Levin’s Theory of Doing Everything
...a trumpet and, on the wall that serves as Levin’s blackboard, a drink rail underlining a mathematical description of a black hole spinning in a magnetic field. Whether Levin is...
Mathematicians Resurrect Hilbert’s 13th Problem
...a whole array, this whole beautiful web of math.” The Roots of the Matter Mathematicians have been probing polynomials for as long as math has been around. Stone tablets carved...
A Movement to Close the Gender Gap in Mathematics
...issues in mathematics, which took place during the Brazilian Math Colloquium, the biggest gathering in the Brazilian mathematical community, which happens every two years. And this was actually the first...
Mathematics as a Team Sport
...By highlighting these problems, Powell was getting at maybe the biggest difference between the way mathematicians and non-mathematicians see the subject. To the latter group, mathematics feels settled. “What else...
How Close Are Computers to Automating Mathematical Reasoning?
...a Fields Medal for work in mathematical logic, reportedly made a sweeping prediction that continues to excite and irritate mathematicians — that “at some unspecified future time, mathematicians would be...
Why Mathematical Proof Is a Social Compact
...Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society about how machines might change mathematics. Quanta spoke with Granville about the nature of mathematical proof — from how proofs work in practice to...
Solution: ‘Information From Randomness?’
...guarantee that all your doubts about the validity of the solution will be laid to rest, but I’ll try my best. I have tried to keep the actual math to...
Why Sleeping Beauty Is Lost in Time
...it as an informal Polymath-style “peer review.” Readers are also invited to share their opinions in the comments section below. The famous Sleeping Beauty problem has polarized communities of mathematicians...