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‘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...
To Have Machines Make Math Proofs, Turn Them Into a Puzzle
...Mathematics, he believes that SAT can be joined with large language models (LLMs) to create tools powerful enough to tame even harder problems in pure math. “LLMs have won medals...
A New Bridge Links the Strange Math of Infinity to Computer Science
Descriptive set theorists study the niche mathematics of infinity. Now, they’ve shown that their problems can be rewritten in the concrete language of algorithms. All of modern mathematics is built...
AI Has Solved One of Math’s $1 Million Millennium Prize Problems
...in how mathematicians tackle difficult problems. This particular difficult problem deals with differential equations, which express relationships between changing quantities. They are arguably the single most important mathematical tool for...
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....
Quanta’s Science and Math Crossword Puzzle
This holiday season, catch up on science and math news while solving our year-end crossword. There is no new Insights puzzle this month, but I come bearing a holiday gift...
Pencils Down: The Art of Teaching Math and Science
What can we learn from the best teachers on the front lines? To shine a spotlight on this linchpin of our education system, Quanta Magazine followed four master science and math teachers into their classrooms.