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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.

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.

Mathematicians Prove 30-Year-Old André-Oort Conjecture

February 3, 2022

A team of mathematicians has solved an important question about how solutions to polynomial equations relate to sophisticated geometric objects called Shimura varieties.

Mathematicians Clear Hurdle in Quest to Decode Primes

January 13, 2022

Paul Nelson has solved the subconvexity problem, bringing mathematicians one step closer to understanding the Riemann hypothesis and the distribution of prime numbers.

Mathematicians Outwit Hidden Number Conspiracy

January 3, 2022

Decades ago, a mathematician posed a warmup problem for some of the most difficult questions about prime numbers. It turned out to be just as difficult to solve, until now.

The Year in Math and Computer Science

December 23, 2021

Mathematicians and computer scientists answered major questions in topology, set theory and even physics, even as computers continued to grow more capable.

What Hot Dogs Can Teach Us About Number Theory

November 18, 2021

The Chinese remainder theorem is an ancient and powerful extension of the simple math of least common multiples.

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The Mathematician Who Delights in Building Bridges

November 17, 2021

Ana Caraiani seeks to unify mathematics through her work on the ambitious Langlands program.

Mathematicians Find Structure in Biased Polynomials

November 9, 2021

New work establishes a tighter connection between the rank of a polynomial and the extent to which it favors particular outputs.

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