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How to Write Software With Mathematical Perfection
...How are they different? Coq was designed to do real mathematics and to be able to capture the reasoning that mathematicians do. It’s what Georges Gonthier used to prove the...
Old Problem About Mathematical Curves Falls to Young Couple
...inspire developments in cryptography, digital storage and other areas well beyond pure mathematics. Still, Vakil said, it’s not enough to understand interpolation for most curves. Mathematicians want to know it...
Mathematicians Prove Hawking Wrong About the Most Extreme Black Holes
...they are by their proof that extremal black holes can exist. “This is a beautiful example of math giving back to physics,” said Elena Giorgi, a mathematician at Columbia University....
Mathematicians Discover New Shapes to Solve Decades-Old Geometry Problem
...teammates on Ukraine’s competitive Math Olympiad squad. They became friends, but didn’t stay in close touch. When their mathematical work later pulled them independently into the orbits of both Andriy...
Mathematicians Uncover a New Way to Count Prime Numbers
To make progress on one of number theory’s most elementary questions, two mathematicians turned to an unlikely source. A new proof has brought mathematicians one step closer to understanding the...
Mathematicians Discover New Way for Spheres to ‘Kiss’
...turned out, they had to break a few unspoken rules. From Codes to Kisses Since the mid-20th century, mathematicians have relied on the mathematics of information theory and error correction...
New Proofs Probe the Limits of Mathematical Truth
By proving a broader version of Hilbert’s famous 10th problem, two groups of mathematicians have expanded the realm of mathematical unknowability. The world of mathematics is full of unreachable corners,...
Amie Wilkinson Sees the Dynamic Chaos in Puff Pastry
...10-chain. I don’t know. Well, I mean, that’s a huge component of what I do as a mathematician. Not all pure mathematicians think that way, but that’s what sets me...
How Is Science Even Possible?
How are scientists able to crack fundamental questions about nature and life? How does math make the complex cosmos understandable? In this episode, the physicist Nigel Goldenfeld and co-host Steven...