In the U.S. and across the world, the conversation around the great issues facing humanity often takes a binary approach, pitting one priority against another, as if life is a relentless series of ...
The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. The simplest ideas in mathematics can also be the most perplexing. Take addition. It’s a straightforward operation: One of the first ...
The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. All of modern mathematics is built on the foundation of set theory, the study of how to organize abstract collections of objects. But in ...
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