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This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American Mathematicians named a mathematical object ...

Several fields of mathematics have developed in total isolation, using their own 'undecipherable' coded languages. Mathematicians now present 'big algebras,' a two-way mathematical 'dictionary' ...

Lauren Williams has charted an adventurous mathematical career out of the pieces of a fundamental object called the positive Grassmannian. The outline of Lauren Williams’ mathematical career was ...

Many people think that mathematics is a human invention. To this way of thinking, mathematics is like a language: it may describe real things in the world, but it doesn’t “exist” outside the minds of ...