Bitcoin — a type of digital money known as cryptocurrency — is completely decentralized, meaning there are no banks or governments that oversee it. Instead of institutional oversight, they use a ...
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 ...
All of modern mathematics is built on the foundation of set theory, the study of how to organize abstract collections of objects. But in general, research mathematicians don’t need to think about it ...