Mathematicians move the needle on the Kakeya conjecture, a decades-old geometric problem
Mathematicians from New York University and the University of British Columbia have resolved a decades-old geometric problem, ...
A Mathematical ‘Fever Dream’ Hits the Road
“Mathemalchemy” has been described as “a mathematics fever dream turned artistic playground for all math lovers (and haters, too).” ...
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You Can Thank This Ancient Greek Mathematician for Your Pi Day Celebration
Pi Day is Friday, March 14. The relatively new holiday is a celebration of the mathematical calculation pi, or the infinite ...
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Indiana’s House of Representatives Once Voted Unanimously to Change the Value of Pi
Indiana’s senate didn’t vote down the bill. The state senators did, however, agree to postpone it indefinitely. Had it not ...
Maria Agnesi, the greatest female mathematician you’ve never heard of
An equally important blow was struck by an Italian mathematician Maria Gaetana Agnesi in the 18th century. Agnesi was the first woman to write a mathematics textbook and to be appointed to a ...
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Imaginary Numbers Are an Important Tool For Technology And Engineering
To a nonmathematician, having the letter "i" represent a number that does not quite exist and is "imaginary" can be hard to ...
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A Mathematician Who Makes the Best of Things
Alessio Figalli, a mathematician at the university ETH Zurich, studies optimal transport: the most efficient allocation of starting points to end points. The scope of investigation is wide ...
New Proofs Expand the Limits of What Cannot Be Known
By proving a broader version of Hilbert’s famous 10th problem, two groups of mathematicians have expanded the realm of ...
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Celebrating Ancient Greek Math on Pi Day
Math fanatics from all around the world and everyone else who just loves ancient Greek pi (or pie) celebrate on March 14.