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Fanni Daniella Szakál is a marine biologist turned science writer. Her work has appeared in Smithsonian Magazine, The Guardian, MIT Technology Review, and Hakai Magazine.

By revisiting the famous problem — which was controversially solved in the 1970s with the help of computers — mathematicians ...

Hidden correspondences hint at a deeper structure to the mathematical universe. Our columnist unpacks one of those connections and asks mathematicians what they might mean.

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Sarah Demers, chair of the physics department at Yale University, sees the potential for large language models to both help and harm her field.

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