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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.
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Karen Uhlenbeck Just Won One of Math's Most Prestigious Prizes. Here's Why Her Work Is So Important.Her work has led to some of the most important advances in math in the last 40 years.
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How a German City Developed — And Then Lost — Generations of Math GeniusesFeature Anti-Semitism brought down one of the world's greatest centers for mathematical research.
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Mathematician Claims He Solved 160-Year-Old Math Problem. Critics Say Probably Not.Critics are weary.
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This Man Won the Top Prize in Mathematics — Then Someone Immediately Stole ItCaucher Birkar, a mathematician at the University of Cambridge, won the 14-carat gold Fields Medal, math's version of the Nobel Prize. Then someone stole it.
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This Biologist Cracked a Problem That's Stumped Mathematicians for 68 YearsAn amateur mathematician just partially solved the Hadwiger-Nelson problem, which has vexed mathematicians since 1950.
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Creator of 'Grand Unified Theory of Mathematics' Wins Prestigious Math PrizeRobert Langlands, a professor at the Institute for Advanced Studies at Princeton University, won one of mathematics' most prestigious prizes for a lifetime for groundbreaking work.
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Famous Mathematician Joseph Fourier Would Have Been 250 Today. Here's Why He MattersOpinion Fourier's discoveries can still be felt in modern-day radiology, climate science and physics.
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