Is there an infinity of infinities? The question sounds almost absurd, like a riddle designed to twist your brain into knots. But for mathematicians, it’s a serious — and endlessly fascinating — ...
(THE REPORTER) — Now that everyone has mini-supercomputers that pretend to be phones in their pockets, it can be challenging to get young people to learn problem-solving skills that do not involve ...
For all of the recent strides we’ve made in the math world—like a supercomputer finally solving the Sum of Three Cubes problem that puzzled mathematicians for 65 years—we’re forever crunching ...