Tag: Mathematicians
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...
High-Dimensional Sudoku Puzzle Proves Mathematicians Wrong on Long-standing Geometry Problem
August 21, 20242 min readHigh-Dimensional Sudoku Puzzle Proves Mathematicians Wrong about Long-Standing Geometry ProblemMathematicians reveal that tiling your multidimensional bathroom will lead to...
Mathematicians Reinvent the Wheel in Higher Dimensions to Solve Decades-Old Geometry...
Mathematicians are “reinventing the wheel” by giving it a new shape. Their newly imagined wheel looks like a many-dimensional guitar pick, and it...
