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How Does Graph Theory Shape Our World?
...more understanding now of how important math is. I used to tell people I’m a mathematician, “They would say, oh, yeah, I’m terrible in math. Math is really boring.” And...
A Movement to Close the Gender Gap in Mathematics
...issues in mathematics, which took place during the Brazilian Math Colloquium, the biggest gathering in the Brazilian mathematical community, which happens every two years. And this was actually the first...
Mathematics as a Team Sport
...By highlighting these problems, Powell was getting at maybe the biggest difference between the way mathematicians and non-mathematicians see the subject. To the latter group, mathematics feels settled. “What else...
How Close Are Computers to Automating Mathematical Reasoning?
...a Fields Medal for work in mathematical logic, reportedly made a sweeping prediction that continues to excite and irritate mathematicians — that “at some unspecified future time, mathematicians would be...
Why Mathematical Proof Is a Social Compact
...Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society about how machines might change mathematics. Quanta spoke with Granville about the nature of mathematical proof — from how proofs work in practice to...
Solution: ‘Information From Randomness?’
...guarantee that all your doubts about the validity of the solution will be laid to rest, but I’ll try my best. I have tried to keep the actual math to...
Why Sleeping Beauty Is Lost in Time
...it as an informal Polymath-style “peer review.” Readers are also invited to share their opinions in the comments section below. The famous Sleeping Beauty problem has polarized communities of mathematicians...
A Drunkard’s Walk in Manhattan
...and a lifelong puzzle enthusiast. One of the most cherished mathematical learning moments of my youth came from an old and very funny math book, whose name I have sadly...
Mathematicians Bridge Finite-Infinite Divide
...1921 commanded mathematicians to weave infinity completely into the fold of finitistic mathematics. Hilbert saw finitistic reducibility as the only remedy for the skepticism then surrounding the new mathematics of...