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“Topology is precisely the mathematical discipline that allows the passage...
Jordana Cepelewicz on two new topographical results that bring some order to the confoundingly difficult study of four-dimensional shapes… The central objects of study in topology are spaces called...
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“If someone separated the art of counting and measuring and weighing from all...
Mathematics, Bo Malmberg and Hannes Malmberg argue, was the cornerstone of the Industrial Revolution. A new paradigm of measurement and calculation, more than scientific discovery, built industry,...
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“Chance, too, which seems to rush along with slack reins, is bridled and...
And the history of our understanding of those laws is, as Tom Chivers explains (in an excerpt from his book, Everything is Predictable), both fascinating and illuminating… Traditionally, the story of...
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“Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth, but supreme beauty”*…
Mark Frauenfelder at Boing Boing with a glorious memory… This cover from the July 1965 issue of Scientific American illustrates the “Four Bugs Problem” featured in Martin Gardner’s “Mathematical...
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“In mathematics, the art of proposing a question must be held of higher value...
Matteo Wong talks with mathematician Terence Tao about the advent of AI in mathematical research and finds that Tao has some very big questions indeed… Terence Tao, a mathematics professor at UCLA, is...
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