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Inside the Secret Math Society Known Simply as Nicolas Bourbaki
For almost a century, the anonymous members of Nicolas Bourbaki have written books intended as pure expressions of mathematical thought. Antoine Chambert-Loir’s initiation into one of math’s oldest secret societies...
Undergraduate Math Student Pushes Frontier of Graph Theory
...had set the previous best upper bound on the problem. A Life of Math Sah grew up in Portland, Oregon, and liked math from a young age. “Some of my...
How Many Numbers Exist? Infinity Proof Moves Math Closer to an Answer.
...a victory for the camp of mathematicians who feel in their bones that the continuum hypothesis is wrong. “This result is tremendously clarifying the picture,” said Juliette Kennedy, a mathematical...
A Plan to Address the World’s Challenges With Math
...the world a better place. Will the mathematicians involved with Mathematics for Humanity be more on the pure math or applied math side? Even among mathematicians, I think there’s a...
How Can Math Protect Our Data?
...is in math, and there’s a lot of really beautiful mathematics that goes on with error-correcting codes, but now I’m in a computer science department and electrical engineering department. There’s...
In Math, Rigor Is Vital. But Are Digitized Proofs Taking It Too Far?
The quest to make mathematics rigorous has a long and spotty history — one mathematicians can learn from as they push to formalize everything in the computer program Lean. In...
The Math Behind Gerrymandering and Wasted Votes
...assembly district map, mathematicians are on the front lines in the fight for electoral fairness. Simple math can help scheming politicians draw up districts that give their party outsize influence,...
Neutrinos Lead to Unexpected Discovery in Basic Math
...of mathematics,” posted a paper online reporting the new formula. Their paper is now under review by Communications in Mathematical Physics. In a separate paper submitted to the Journal of...
Math After COVID-19
...now deserted. Mathematicians rely on face-to-face interaction and close communication to produce new mathematics. With social distancing in place, that’s not really possible. Like most math conferences, Oberwolfach’s weekly retreats...