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Math’s ‘Game of Life’ Reveals Long-Sought Repeating Patterns
John Conway’s Game of Life, a famous cellular automaton, has been found to have periodic patterns of every possible length. In 1969, the British mathematician John Conway devised a beguilingly...
‘Groups’ Underpin Modern Math. Here’s How They Work.
What do the integers have in common with the symmetries of a triangle? In the 19th century, mathematicians invented groups as an answer to this question. Mathematics started with numbers...
The Year in Math
...the world of mathematics and opened up new vistas for mathematicians to explore. Now mathematicians are trying to predict what that will look like with AI. Sphere-Packing Records Get...
Rational or Not? This Basic Math Question Took Decades to Answer.
...ancient question. In June 1978, the organizers of a large mathematics conference in Marseille, France, announced a last-minute addition to the program. During the lunch hour, the mathematician Roger Apéry...
After 20 Years, Math Couple Solves Major Group Theory Problem
...at the presence of a deeper mathematical truth, one that mathematicians don’t yet have a handle on. A year after McKay first observed the coincidence, a mathematician named Marty Isaacs...
‘Once in a Century’ Proof Settles Math’s Kakeya Conjecture
...up new vistas in mathematics. “It needed to be done,” she said. Joshua Zahl, a mathematician at the University of British Columbia, co-authored the new proof. DVDP for Quanta Magazine...
New ‘Superdiffusion’ Proof Probes the Mysterious Math of Turbulence
...infer some of turbulence’s qualities. But mathematicians are often unable to prove these statements. The mathematical mystery of turbulence lies at the heart of a $1 million Millennium Prize Problem,...
Quantum Scientists Have Built a New Math of Cryptography
...instead anchor one-way puzzles directly to the mathematical bedrock. From one perspective, that seemed like an odd choice. One-way puzzles were mathematical oddities that Khurana and Tomer had used in...
The ‘Elegant’ Math Model That Could Help Rescue Coral Reefs
...starfish. The ocean was a home, but in school, Llabrés preferred physics and math. In Barcelona for college, she dove into the theoretical mysteries of black holes and quantum gravity....