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3w ago
Recursion builds bridges between ideas from across different math classes and illustrates the power of creative mathematical thinking ..read more
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3M ago
If Anna beats Benji in a game and Benji beats Carl, will Anna beat Carl ..read more
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4M ago
Landmark results in Ramsey theory and a remarkably simple aperiodic tile capped a year of mathematical delight and discovery ..read more
Quanta Magazine » Combinatorics
4M ago
A team of four prominent mathematicians, including two Fields medalists, proved a conjecture described as a “holy grail of additive combinatorics ..read more
Quanta Magazine » Combinatorics
4M ago
The Markov numbers reveal the secrets of irrational numbers and the patterns of the Fibonacci sequence. But there’s one question about them that has resisted proof for over a century ..read more
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8M ago
A new proof breaks a decades-long drought of progress on the problem of estimating the size of triangles created by cramming points into a square ..read more
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10M ago
A new result shows how much of the plane can be colored by points that are never exactly one unit apart ..read more
Quanta Magazine » Combinatorics
10M ago
Mathematicians can often figure out what happens as quantities grow infinitely large. What about when they are just a little big ..read more
Quanta Magazine » Combinatorics
10M ago
Mathematicians probe the limits of randomness in new work estimating quantities called Ramsey numbers ..read more
Quanta Magazine » Combinatorics
10M ago
A new paper finds a faster method for determining when two mathematical groups are the same ..read more