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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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“The number 2 is a very dangerous number: that is why the dialectic is a...
In order to bridge the yawning gulf between the humanities and the sciences, Gordon Gillespie suggests, we must turn to an unexpected field: mathematics… In 1959, the English writer and physicist C P...
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“Truth is ever to be found in the simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and...
Knots with 8 crossings From Kim (Scott) Morrison‘s and Dror Bar-Natan‘s, The Knot Atlas, “a complete user-editable knot atlas, in the wiki spirit of Wikipedia“– a marvelous example of a wide-spread...
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“As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain;...
As Gregory Barber explains, two new notions of infinity challenge a long-standing plan to define the mathematical universe… It was minus 20 degrees Celsius, and while some went cross-country skiing,...
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“Patience’s design flaw became obvious for the first time in my life: the...
As Simone de Rochefort explains, Patience– or as we tend to know it, solitaire— illustrates the way in which some of humanity’s oldest toys are our most complex… … last year, I got addicted to...
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