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general relativity

Mass and Angular Momentum, Left Ambiguous by Einstein, Get Defined

By Steve Nadis
July 13, 2022
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Surprising as it may sound, 107 years after the introduction of general relativity, the meanings of basic concepts are still being worked out.

2022 Fields and Abacus Medals

A Solver of the Hardest Easy Problems About Prime Numbers

By Erica Klarreich
July 5, 2022
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On his way to winning a Fields Medal, James Maynard has cut a path through simple-sounding questions about prime numbers that have stumped mathematicians for centuries.

Hugo Duminil-Copin wearing glasses
2022 Fields and Abacus Medals

For His Sporting Approach to Math, a Fields Medal

By Jordana Cepelewicz
July 5, 2022
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With Hugo Duminil-Copin, thinking rarely happens without moving. His insights into the flow-related properties of complex networks have earned him the Fields Medal.

June Huh with a polyhedron.
2022 Fields and Abacus Medals

He Dropped Out to Become a Poet. Now He’s Won a Fields Medal.

By Jordana Cepelewicz
July 5, 2022
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June Huh wasn’t interested in mathematics until a chance encounter during his sixth year of college. Now his profound insights connecting combinatorics and geometry have led to math’s highest honor.

Maryna Viazovska seated on the wooden steps of an amphitheater at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne.
2022 Fields and Abacus Medals

In Times of Scarcity, War and Peace, a Ukrainian Finds the Magic in Math

By Thomas Lin +1 authors
Erica Klarreich
July 5, 2022
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With her homeland mired in war, the sphere-packing number theorist Maryna Viazovska has become the second woman to win a Fields Medal in the award’s 86-year history.

A graphed cubic equation separates 16th-century scientists Niccolò Fontana Tartaglia, and Gerolamo Cardano
Quantized Columns

The Sordid Past of the Cubic Formula

By David S. Richeson
June 30, 2022
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The quest to solve cubic equations led to duels, betrayals — and modern mathematics.

Computers doing mathematics.
The Joy of Why

Can Computers Be Mathematicians?

By Steven Strogatz
June 29, 2022
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Artificial intelligence has bested humans at problem-solving challenges like chess and Go. Is mathematics research next? Steven Strogatz speaks with mathematician Kevin Buzzard to learn about the effort to translate math into language that computers understand.

a human figure stacks gold coins on an equally balanced scale
Insights puzzle

How to Weigh Truth With a Balance Scale and Math

By Pradeep Mutalik
June 27, 2022
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In recreational mathematics, the balance scale is an endless source of puzzles that require precise and elaborate logic and teach the fundamentals of generalization.

Points connected by lines.
graph theory

Mathematical Connect-the-Dots Reveals How Structure Emerges

By Leila Sloman
June 23, 2022
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A new proof identifies precisely how large a mathematical graph must be before it contains a regular substructure.


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