athematics is, at its core, an art. Like painters, musicians or writers, mathematicians create and explore new worlds. They ...
Astronomer Heather Couper looks at the mathematics of infinity and finds a worrying set of results emerging. The programme includes Hilbert's pardox of the Grand Hotel and the origin of the number ...
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Humanity has explored numbers for a long time. Then, it encountered infinity, a state too vast to even imagine, and fell into deep thought. As time passed, the word 'infinity' entered our daily lives, ...
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In “The Great Math War,” Jason Socrates Bardi takes on a battle for the soul of numbers that divided the experts of its day. By Jordan Ellenberg Jordan Ellenberg, a professor of mathematics at the ...
Mathematicians have discovered a pattern known as the einstein tile — a single shape that can cover an infinite plane without ever repeating. Long thought impossible, the discovery rewrote what ...
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