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Mathematicians must be more prepared to test their truths
Mathematical proofs embody a Platonic ideal of eternal truth. Two major contested proofs this week show the need for more controversy, not less
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Riemann hypothesis likely remains unsolved despite claimed proof
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Mathematics
Infinity war: The ongoing battle over the world’s hardest maths proof
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Famed mathematician claims proof of 160-year-old Riemann hypothesis
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Kurdish refugee wins the Fields medal – the biggest prize in maths
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Humans
How to think about… Logic
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Humans
More penalty shoot-outs needed to make future World Cups fairer
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How a frog鈥檚 eye robbed us of a genius鈥檚 AI masterwork
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I’m working on a universal language to let us speak to aliens
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Watch the weird new solutions to the baffling three-body problem
The three-body problem, which determines how objects orbit each other in space, is notoriously difficult to solve. Now there are 231 new valid orbits
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Humans
The unfashionable genius of William de Morgan
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Escher’s Journey: there’s more to this artist than his maths
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7 mathematicians you should have heard of 鈥� but probably haven’t
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Theorem of everything: The secret that links numbers and shapes
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