The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. All of modern mathematics is built on the foundation of set theory, the study of how to organize abstract collections of objects. But in ...
On a crisp fall New England day during my junior year of college, I was walking past a subway entrance when a math problem caught my eye. A man was standing near a few brainteasers he had scribbled on ...
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One Third Of Math's "Grand Unified Theory" Has (Almost Certainly) Just Been Toppled
For a few months now, the mathematical world has been abuzz. Rumors abound of a new proof, monumental in length and virtually ...
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