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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...

Did you solve it? Do you have the mind of an engineer?

Earlier today I set you five ‘reverse engineering’ picture puzzles, in which I presented pictures of five structures and...

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,...

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