Tag: Mathematicians
Mathematicians Hunting Prime Numbers Discover Infinite New Pattern for Finding Them
For centuries, prime numbers have captured the imaginations of mathematicians, who continue to search for new patterns that help identify them and the...
Inside the Secret Meeting Where Mathematicians Struggled to Outsmart AI
At Secret Math Meeting, Researchers Struggle to Outsmart AIThe world's leading mathematicians were stunned by how adept artificial intelligence is at doing their...
Mathematicians Solve Multidimensional Shape-Slicing Dilemma
Mathematicians Solve Multidimensional Fruit-Slicing DilemmaA 40-year-old conjecture on shapes’ cross sections is finally provenBy Max Springer edited by Sarah Lewin FrasierIn 1986 Belgian...
Pedestrian Traffic Turns to Chaos at a Critical Angle, Mathematicians Find
'Chaos' Angle Explains Why Pedestrian Traffic Snarls to a StopIn general, crowds like to form lanes to get across—until too many people go...
Mathematicians Find Proof to 122-Year-Old Triangle-to-Square Puzzle
Mathematicians Find Proof to 122-Year-Old Triangle-to-Square PuzzleA long-standing shape mystery has finally been solvedBy Lyndie Chiou edited by Clara MoskowitzAbout a decade ago...
Mathematicians Solve Infamous ‘Moving Sofa Problem’
February 4, 20254 min readMathematicians Solve Infamous ‘Moving Sofa Problem’What’s the largest couch that can turn a corner? After 58 years, we finally...
Mysterious Constant that Makes Mathematicians Despair
Mathematicians attended Roger Apéry’s lecture at a French National Center for Scientific Research conference in June 1978 with a great deal of skepticism....
Mathematicians’ Newest Assistants Are Artificially Intelligent
Mathematicians explore ideas by proposing conjectures and proving them with theorems. For centuries, they built these proofs line by careful line, and most...
Mathematicians Discover a New Kind of Shape That’s All over Nature
How few corners can a shape have and still tile the plane?” mathematician Gábor Domokos asked me over pizza. His deceptively simple question...
‘Infinite monkey theorem’ challenged by Australian mathematicians
Two Australian mathematicians have called into question an old adage, that if given an infinite amount of time, a monkey pressing keys on...
