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At Long Last, Mathematical Proof That Black Holes Are Stable

In 1963, the mathematician Roy Kerr found a solution to Einstein’s equations that precisely described the spacetime outside what...

Particle Physicists Puzzle Over a New Duality

Last year, the particle physicist Lance Dixon was preparing a lecture when he noticed a striking similarity between two...

Hypergraphs Reveal a Solution to a 50-Year-Old Problem

In 1850, Thomas Penyngton Kirkman , a mathematician when he wasn’t fulfilling his main responsibility as a vicar in...

Meet the Ukrainian Number Theorist Who Won Math’s Highest Honor

In late February, just weeks after Maryna Viazovska learned she had won a Fields Medal—the highest honor for a...

A Grad Student’s Side Project Proves a Prime Number Conjecture

as the atoms of arithmetic, prime numbers have always occupied a special place on the number line. Now,...

My Problem With Pronouns

I’m having a problem with my pronouns. Tagging myself as “her” reminds me of the horrible hemmed feeling...

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