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Maryam Mirzakhani Won Math's Most Prestigious Medal Before She Died. Now There's a Prize in Her Honor.A new prize for young female mathematicians honors Maryam Mirzhakhani, an Iranian mathematician who died of breast cancer at age 40.
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Mathematicians Solve 'Twin Prime Conjecture' — In an Alternate UniverseMathematicians have uncovered a big new piece of evidence for one of the most famous unproven ideas in mathematics, known as the twin prime conjecture.
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Can You Count Past Infinity?How many different types of infinity are there, and can we count past any of them?
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Long-Standing Problem of 'Golden Ratio' and Other Irrational Numbers Solved with 'Magical Simplicity'Mathematicians have finally proved a conjecture on approximating numbers with fractions
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Mathematician Wins $3 Million Breakthrough Prize for 'Magic Wand Theorem'Their research answered many questions. Among them: What happens if you put a candle in a room full of perfect mirrors?
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This Mathematician's 'Mysterious' New Method Just Solved a 30-Year-Old ProblemThe proof took 30 years to be solved, but it's so simple and elegant that you can summarize it in a single tweet.
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Mathematicians Edge Closer to Solving a 'Million Dollar' Math ProblemA new paper could end up being a big step toward solving one of the oldest unanswered puzzles in mathematics: Is the Riemann hypothesis correct?
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Computer Software Could Crack Centuries-Old Math PuzzleOpinion Mathematicians have known how to solve something called an S-unit equation for several years. However, the process is so convoluted that few can actually use it to tackle their problems.
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A Mathematician Just Solved a Deceptively Simple Puzzle That Has Boggled Minds for 64 YearsCan you add three cubed numbers and get 33? A mathematician just did, and it took only a few quadrillion attempts.
