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Unequal review: A book exploring mathematical “equality” helps with real world

Numbers allow us to focus on one aspect of a situation in detail, but can also oversimplify things Mika Baumeister/Unsplash UnequalEugenia…

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Black Hole Mergers Show Strange Mathematical Link to String Theory

A decade ago astrophysicists at the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO), operated by the California Institute of Technology and the…

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Quantum computers are on track to solve knotty mathematical problems

Quantum computers theoretically offer advantages over ordinary machines Quantinuum Quantum computers could soon be able to solve genuinely useful mathematical…

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The Surprisingly Difficult Mathematical Proof That Anime Fans Helped Solve

Math solutions can be found in surprising places, including the dark realms of the Internet. In 2011 an anonymous poster…

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Mathematical Symbols’ Wild History Explained

War in Europe is a staple topic in the study of history, but there’s one major conflict most history books…

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Barcodes: How they could be your latest mathematical party trick

Shutterstock/Scott Rothstein Sometimes there are hidden patterns in numbers you might not immediately notice. One example of this is in…

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