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New Proof Settles Decades-Old Bet About Connected Networks

Quanta Magazine, April 18, 2025

After 20 Years, Math Couple Solves Major Group Theory Problem

Quanta Magazine, February 19, 2025

‘Groups’ Underpin Modern Math. Here’s How They Work.

Quanta Magazine, September 6, 2024

Grad Students Find Inevitable Patterns in Big Sets of Numbers

Quanta Magazine, August 5, 2024

In Highly Connected Networks, There’s Always a Loop

Quanta Magazine, June 7, 2024

Geometers Engineer New Tools to Wrangle Spacecraft Orbits

Quanta Magazine, April 15, 2024

Number of Distances Separating Points Has a New Bound

Quanta Magazine, April 9, 2024

Maze Proof Establishes a ‘Backbone’ for Statistical Mechanics

Quanta Magazine, February 7, 2024

The Mathematician Who Finds the Poetry in Math and the Math in Poetry

Quanta Magazine, January 12, 2024

‘A-Team’ of Math Proves a Critical Link Between Addition and Sets

Quanta Magazine, December 6, 2023

In the ‘Wild West’ of Geometry, Mathematicians Redefine the Sphere

Quanta Magazine, November 7, 2023

Mathematicians Cross the Line to Get to the Point

Quanta Magazine, September 25, 2023

The Biggest Smallest Triangle Just Got Smaller

Quanta Magazine, September 8, 2023

Mathematicians Discover Long-Sought 'Dedekind Number'

Scientific American, August 15, 2023

New Proof Shows That 'Expander' Graphs Synchronize

Quanta Magazine, July 24, 2023

The Lawlessness of Large Numbers

Quanta Magazine, July 7, 2023

A Very Big Small Leap Forward in Graph Theory

Quanta Magazine, May 2, 2023

2 High School Students Prove Pythagorean Theorem. Here's What That Means

Scientific American, April 10, 2023

Surprise Computer Science Proof Stuns Mathematicians

Quanta Magazine, March 21, 2023

Coloring by Numbers Reveals Arithmetic Patterns in Fractions

Quanta Magazine, March 15, 2023

Quantum Field Theory Pries Open Mathematical Puzzle

Quanta Magazine, February 16, 2023

Mathematicians Eliminate Long-Standing Threat to Knot Conjecture

Quanta Magazine, February 2, 2023

Probability and Number Theory Collide — in a Moment

Quanta Magazine, January 12, 2023

From Systems in Motion, Infinite Patterns Appear

Quanta Magazine, December 6, 2022

Cryptography’s Future Will Be Quantum-Safe. Here’s How It Will Work.

Quanta Magazine, November 9, 2022

Mathematicians Discover the Fibonacci Numbers Hiding in Strange Spaces

Quanta Magazine, October 17, 2022

A Numerical Mystery From the 19th Century Finally Gets Solved

Quanta Magazine, August 15, 2022

Hypergraphs Reveal Solution to 50-Year-Old Problem

Quanta Magazine, July 14, 2022

Mathematical Connect-the-Dots Reveals How Structure Emerges

Quanta Magazine, June 23, 2022

Unimaginable Surfaces Discovered After Decades-Long Search

Quanta Magazine, June 2, 2022

How Complex is a Knot? New Proof Reveals Ranking System That Works.

Quanta Magazine, May 18, 2022

Mathematicians Coax Fluid Equations Into Nonphysical Solutions

Quanta Magazine, May 2, 2022

New Proof Illuminates the Hidden Structure of Common Equations

Quanta Magazine, April 21, 2022

In New Math Proofs, Artificial Intelligence Plays to Win

Quanta Magazine, March 7, 2022

This Natural Treasure Contains the Secret to Stronger Armor

Popular Mechanics, February 28, 2022

Mathematicians Prove 30-Year-Old André-Oort Conjecture

Quanta Magazine, February 3, 2022

Teaching Quantum Materials How to Remember

Popular Mechanics, December 28, 2021

Mathematician Answers Chess Problem About Attacking Queens

Quanta Magazine, September 21, 2021

Baby Jumping Spiders See Surprisingly Well

Scientific American, November 1, 2019

New Proof Solves 80-Year-Old Irrational Number Problem

Scientific American, September 16, 2019

Birds of a Feather Flap Faster to Stay Together

Scientific American, September 1, 2019

Trapping the Tiniest Sound

Scientific American, August 30, 2019

Earth Could Be a Lens for a Revolutionary Space Telescope

Scientific American, August 14, 2019

Fans May Be Okay for Muggy Days—but Avoid Them in Extreme Dry Heat

Scientific American, August 5, 2019

Hubble Tension Headache: Clashing Measurements Make the Universe’s Expansion a Lingering Mystery

Scientific American, July 29, 2019

Magnet and Neuron Model Also Predicts Arctic Sea Ice Melt

Scientific American, July 24, 2019