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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...
A Mathematician Who Decodes the Patterns Stamped Out by Life
...Corina Tarnita was a budding mathematician, she found her interest in mathematics flickering, about to burn out. As a girl she had stormed through Romania’s National Mathematical Olympiad — where...
With Category Theory, Mathematics Escapes From Equality
...20th century, mathematicians increasingly began to do math in terms of weaker notions of equivalence such as homotopy. “As math gets more subtle, it’s inevitable that we have this progression...
Mathematicians Calculate How Randomness Creeps In
...of the mathematical understanding of randomness. “They’re in this sweet spot where we can still analyze them, [yet] they describe many phenomena of interest,” said Yuval Peres, a mathematician who’s...
The Mathematician Who Sculpted the Shape of Space
...1976, Yau met with Calabi and another mathematician, who confirmed the validity of his proof, establishing the mathematical existence of objects now called Calabi-Yau manifolds. In 1982, Yau won a...