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Abel Prize Awarded for Studies of Universe’s Randomness

Michel Talagrand of France has credited a brush with blindness for leading to the work that resulted in his recognition…

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Science

What Can You Do With an Einstein?

It’s been a year of endless einsteins. In March, a troupe of mathematical tilers announced that they had discovered an…

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Joseph J. Kohn, Who Broke New Ground in Calculus, Dies at 91

The techniques he developed in the field of complex numbers have found use in tackling a wide range of fundamental…

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World

Half of New York City Children Passed Math and Reading Tests

The pass rates are up, but the state’s annual exams were overhauled, so the results can’t really be compared with…

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World

Robert J. Zimmer, Who Promoted Free Speech on Campus, Dies at 75

A mathematician, he was for many years the president of the University of Chicago, where he argued that civility was…

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Science

What Number Comes Next? Ask the Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences.

Some numbers are odd: 1, 3, 5, 7, 9, 11, 13, 15 … Some are even: 2, 4, 6, 8,…

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