For centuries prime numbers have captured the imaginations of mathematicians, who continue to search for new patterns that help them identify primes and the way they are distributed among other ...
The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. All of modern mathematics is built on the foundation of set theory, the study of how to organize abstract collections of objects. But in ...
It all started one summer lunchtime in 1992 on the terrace outside the CERN cafeteria. If you had happened to be there at the physics research lab near Geneva at the time, you might have overheard ...
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