Tag: mathematicians

About 13.8 billion years ago, the entire cosmos consisted of a tiny, hot, dense ball of energy that suddenly exploded. ...

Back in the 1990s, Mrowka and Kronheimer investigated what happens when you excise a two-dimensional surface from a four-dimensional manifold. ...

Over the last two years, mathematicians have identified the best versions of a child’s playroom’s worth of shapes. These results ...

Mathematics A pair of mathematicians studied the UK National Lottery and figured out a combination of 27 tickets that guarantees ...

In November 2022 a colleague of mine casually asked what I was working on. My dazed answer reflected the swirl ...

For decades, a simple question has haunted Máté Matolcsi, a professor at the Budapest University of Technology and Economics. How ...

It has been an exhilarating year in combinatorics research. In early 2023, mathematicians were stunned when two of the biggest ...

A graph of an elliptic curve. Credit: Googolplexian1221, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons On June 23, 1993, the mathematician ...