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Erica Klarreich

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applied math

How to Quantify (and Fight) Gerrymandering

By Erica Klarreich
April 4, 2017
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Powerful new quantitative tools are now available to combat partisan bias in the drawing of voting districts.

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Abstractions blog

Graph Isomorphism Vanquished — Again

By Erica Klarreich
January 14, 2017
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Just five days after posting a retraction, László Babai announced that he had fixed the error in his landmark graph isomorphism algorithm.

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Abstractions blog

Complexity Theory Problem Strikes Back

By Erica Klarreich
January 5, 2017
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The legendary graph isomorphism problem may be harder than a 2015 result seemed to suggest.

Abstractions blog

All Is Not Fair in Cake-Cutting and Math

By Erica Klarreich
October 7, 2016
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When divvying something up, there’s more than one way to define what’s fair.

algorithms

How to Cut Cake Fairly and Finally Eat It Too

By Erica Klarreich
October 6, 2016
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Computer scientists have come up with a bounded algorithm that can fairly divide a cake among any number of people.

profiles

The Oracle of Arithmetic

By Erica Klarreich
June 28, 2016
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At 28, Peter Scholze is uncovering deep connections between number theory and geometry.

combinatorics

Simple Set Game Proof Stuns Mathematicians

By Erica Klarreich
May 31, 2016
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A new series of papers has settled a long-standing question related to the popular game in which players seek patterned sets of three cards.

geometry

Sphere Packing Solved in Higher Dimensions

By Erica Klarreich
March 30, 2016
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The Ukrainian mathematician Maryna Viazovska has solved the centuries-old sphere-packing problem in dimensions eight and 24.

number theory

Mathematicians Discover Prime Conspiracy

By Erica Klarreich
March 13, 2016
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A previously unnoticed property of prime numbers seems to violate a long-standing assumption about how they behave.


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