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Evelyn Lamb

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Möbius Strips Defy a Link With Infinity

By Evelyn Lamb
February 20, 2019
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A new proof shows why an uncountably infinite number of Möbius strips will never fit into a three-dimensional space.

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Decades-Old Graph Problem Yields to Amateur Mathematician

By Evelyn Lamb
April 17, 2018
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By making the first progress on the “chromatic number of the plane” problem in over 60 years, an anti-aging pundit has achieved mathematical immortality.

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Evelyn Lamb is a science and mathematics writer as well as a mathematician at the University of Utah.
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