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A New Proof Moves the Needle on a Sticky Geometry Problem
The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. In 1917, the Japanese mathematician Sōichi Kakeya posed what at…
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A teenager has solved a conundrum about prime numbers that ‘look alike’
Mathematicians want to better understand numbers that closely resemble the most fundamental object in number theory, the prime numbers. It…
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Mathematicians overcome some hidden ‘conspiracy’
Intuition tells mathematicians that adding 2 to a number completely changes its multiplication structure — that is, there is no…
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