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Quanta Magazine » Mathematics
2d ago
Mathematicians have struggled to prove Falconer’s Conjecture, a simple, but far-reaching, hypothesis about the distances between points. They’re finally getting close ..read more
Quanta Magazine » Mathematics
2d ago
Mathematicians think abstract tools from a field called symplectic geometry might help with planning missions to far-off moons and planets ..read more
Quanta Magazine » Mathematics
2w ago
The French mathematician spent decades developing a set of tools now widely used for taming random processes ..read more
Quanta Magazine » Mathematics
1M ago
Explore a universe of numbers and arithmetic in our new and improved interactive math game, Hyperjumps ..read more
Quanta Magazine » Mathematics
1M ago
The recipient of the 2024 Crafoord Prize in Mathematics discusses math as art, math as language, and math as abstract thought ..read more
Quanta Magazine » Mathematics
2M ago
This past October, dozens of mathematicians gathered in Pasadena to create the third version of “Kirby’s list” — a compendium of the most important unsolved problems in the field ..read more
Quanta Magazine » Mathematics
2M ago
Simple rules in simple settings continue to puzzle mathematicians, even as they devise intricate tools to analyze them ..read more
Quanta Magazine » Mathematics
2M ago
Two researchers have proved that Penrose tilings, famous patterns that never repeat, are mathematically equivalent to a kind of quantum error correction ..read more
Quanta Magazine » Mathematics
2M ago
Mathematicians are working to fully explain unusual behaviors uncovered using artificial intelligence ..read more
Quanta Magazine » Mathematics
2M ago
Four mathematicians have estimated the chances that there’s a clear path through a random maze ..read more