It's a plot device beloved by science fiction: our entire universe might be a simulation running on some advanced ...

The proof, known to be so hard that a mathematician once offered 10 martinis to whoever could figure it out, uses number ...

A fundamental link between two counterintuitive phenomena in spin glasses—reentrance and temperature chaos—has been ...

For those whose mathematical training extended not far past 2 + 2 = 4, math can seem like a dry, precise field, punctuated by absolutes. But the deeper you go into mathematics, the fuzzier and more ...

It might come as a surprise to some people that this prediction hasn’t already come to pass. Given that mathematics is a subject of logic and precision, it would seem to be perfect territory for a ...

It’s the largest math proof. A supercomputer solved it in just 2 days. And it’s 200 terabytes. Yes, 200 terabytes. That’s the size of the file containing the computer-assisted proof for a mathematical ...

You think writing proofs for algebra during high school was hard? Think again. A trio of brilliant mathematicians just solved a decade-old puzzle and consequently produced the world's largest ...

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