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The Quest to Find the Longest-Running Simple Computer Program
But just how much harder? In 1962, the mathematician Tibor Radó invented a new...
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This New Pyramid-Like Shape Always Lands With the Same Side Up
In 2023, Domokos—along with his graduate students Gergő Almádi and Krisztina Regős, and Robert...
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Student Solves a Long-Standing Problem About the Limits of Addition
The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. The simplest ideas in...
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Scientists Are Mapping the Boundaries of What Is Knowable and Unknowable
Moore designed his pinball machine to complete the analogy to the Turing machine. The...
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The Saw-Toothed Function That Broke Calculus
The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Calculus is a powerful...
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‘Gem’ of a Proof Breaks 80-Year-Old Record, Offers New Insights Into Prime Numbers
The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Sometimes mathematicians try to...
