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(via Quanta) A simple question about a spinning needle has haunted mathematicians for more than a century. It led to the Kakeya conjecture, a cornerstone of modern analysis connecting geometry, ...

The Collatz Conjecture begins with a simple sequence yet no proof has ever been found to solve it. Met Police bust gang terrorising shops in £2,000,000 crime wave Demi Moore reveals Bruce Willis' ...

A brilliant teen who honed her skills during the COVID-19 pandemic has solved one of math’s most mysterious problems — and in doing so, become a rising star. As Quanta magazine reports, fledgling ...

When Hannah Cairo was 17 years old, she disproved the Mizohata-Takeuchi conjecture, a long-standing guess in the field of harmonic analysis about how waves behave on curved surfaces. The conjecture ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: The Busy Beaver number, or BB(n), represents a mathematical problem that tries to calculate the longest possible run-time of a Turing machine ...

Amateur mathematicians are closing in on an unimaginably huge number – one so large that it brushes up on the edge of what is even knowable within the framework of modern mathematics. It all stems ...

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Soon to be the official tool for managing Python installations on Windows, the new Python Installation Manager picks up where the ‘py’ launcher left off. Python is a first-class citizen on Microsoft ...