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Google Researcher, Long Out of Math, Cracks Devilish Problem About Sets
Google Researcher, Long Out of Math, Cracks Problem About Sets On nights and weekends, Justin Gilmer attacked an old question in pure math using the tools of information theory. In...
The Surprisingly Simple Math Behind Puzzling Matchups
...is never this straightforward. But from a purely mathematical standpoint, this argument has some appeal. It uses an important idea in mathematics known as transitivity, a familiar property that allows...
Math That Connects Where We’re Going to Where We’ve Been
Recursion builds bridges between ideas from across different math classes and illustrates the power of creative mathematical thinking. Say you’re at a party with nine other people and everyone shakes...
Math Is Still Catching Up to the Mysterious Genius of Srinivasa Ramanujan
...Hidden within that structure were mysterious mathematical statements first written down a century earlier by a young Indian mathematician named Srinivasa Ramanujan. They had come to him in a dream....
A Number Theorist Who Bridges Math and Time
...the idea of Olympiads,” he said. “I think if that was what mathematicians really did, I wouldn’t enjoy being a mathematician.” Mathematics is a comparatively straightforward subject in which to...
Why the Sum of Three Cubes Is a Hard Math Problem
Looking for answers in infinite space is hard. High school math can help narrow your search. Given that humans have been studying numbers for thousands of years, you might think...
New Math Book Rescues Landmark Topology Proof
...correct at all. In a 2012 post on MathOverflow, one commenter referred to the proof as a “monstrosity of a paper” and said he had “never met a mathematician who...
Quanta Relaunches Hyperjumps Math Game
Explore a universe of numbers and arithmetic in our new and improved interactive math game, Hyperjumps! It’s the year 2718. Humanity has invented a warp drive that enables a spacecraft...
How Does Math Keep Secrets?
...mathematical analysis. And a key figure in bringing about the mathematical analysis of cryptography was Claude Shannon, who in the late 1940s wrote some influential papers, starting with a mathematical...