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In the early 1930s a group of bright university students held gatherings in Budapest to discuss math. Among them was Paul Erdős, an eccentric prodigy who would go on to become the most prolific ...

The Riemann hypothesis claims that the locations of prime numbers along the infinite number line all adhere to a beautiful and orderly but obscure formula. Yet 167 years after German mathematician ...

Yet another longstanding mathematical question has been resolved by AI – and it feels a little different from the ones that have come before ...

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Researchers around the world are racing to develop new quantum-based systems for sensing, communication, computing and control that have the promise of outperforming traditional systems. Creating ...

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For many of us, high-level math classes can be confusing. "I find math hard for me, which kind of makes me somewhat dislike it," said Sophia Cox, a student at Uplift Williams School in Dallas. To help ...