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Mathematics

Decade-long struggle over maths proof could be decided by $1m prize

Mathematician Shinichi Mochizuki's Inter-universal Teichmüller theory has attracted controversy since it was published in 2012, with no one able to agree whether it is true. Now, a $1 million prize is being launched to settle the matter

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Life

Ancient plant's leaves didn't follow golden rule as modern ones do

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Mathematics

How maths can help you pack your shopping more efficiently

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Mathematics

Mathematicians make even better never-repeating tile discovery

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Physicist David Wolpert on how to study concepts beyond imagination

Mind

Physicist David Wolpert on how to study concepts beyond imagination

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2B034C5 In addition to Herman Melville's own experience on the whaling ship Acushnet, two real events served as the genesis for his Moby Dick. One was the sinking of the Nantucket ship Essex in 1820, after a sperm whale rammed her 2,000 miles (3,200 km) from the western coast of South America. The other event was the alleged killing in the late 1830s of the albino sperm whale Mocha Dick, in the waters off the Chilean island of Mocha. Mocha Dick was rumored to have 20 or so harpoons in his back from other whalers, and appeared to attack ships with premeditated ferocity.

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Once Upon a Prime review: The connections between maths and fiction

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Mathematics

Mathematician wins Abel prize for solving equations with geometry

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Mathematics

Breakthrough in fiendishly hard puzzle has mathematicians partying

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Aperiodic tiling

Mathematics

Mathematicians discover shape that can tile a wall and never repeat

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Google's Sycamore quantum computer

Technology

Quantum computers may finally have their first real practical use

Methods to generate the random numbers we need for secure communications are all flawed in some way, but quantum computers that exist today could produce random numbers that can't be faked

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Technology

Mathematical trick lets hackers shame people into fixing software bugs

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Mathematics

Why maths, our best tool to describe the universe, may be fallible

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Mathematics

To make maths classes sizzle, inject some politics and social justice

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Mathematics

Humans beat DeepMind AI in creating algorithm to multiply numbers

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