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An illustration of a mathematician on a ladder stringing red and blue beads against a tiled red backdrop dotted with blue circles.

Mathematician Hurls Structure and Disorder Into Century-Old Problem

Illustration of 826-vertex graph for "Decades-Old Graph Problem Yields to Amateur Mathematician"

Decades-Old Graph Problem Yields to Amateur Mathematician

15 pentagon tessellations

Pentagon Tiling Proof Solves Century-Old Math Problem

Combinatorics and constellations

A Puzzle of Clever Connections Nears a Happy End

Simple Set Game Proof Stuns Mathematicians

Sphere Packing Solved in Higher Dimensions