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Surfaces Beyond Imagination Are Discovered After Decades-Long Search
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Surfaces Beyond Imagination Are Discovered After Decades-Long Search

By Leila Sloman
June 2, 2022
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Unimaginable Surfaces Discovered After Decades-Long Search Using ideas borrowed from graph theory, two mathematicians have shown that extremely complex surfaces are easy to traverse. Last July, two mathematicians from Durham...
How to Weigh Truth With a Balance Scale
a human figure stacks gold coins on an equally balanced scale
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How to Weigh Truth With a Balance Scale

By Pradeep Mutalik
June 27, 2022
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How to Weigh Truth With a Balance Scale and Math In recreational mathematics, the balance scale is an endless source of puzzles that require precise and elaborate logic and teach...
What Is Quantum Field Theory and Why Is It Incomplete?
Representations of fields becoming neutrons, doughnuts, pretzels, soccer balls and other objects.
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What Is Quantum Field Theory and Why Is It Incomplete?

By Steven Strogatz
August 10, 2022
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...our pure mathematician friends, because our pure mathematician friends are smart people, and we think that we have this mathematical theory. But they don’t understand what we’re talking about. And...