Alexander Grothendieck Revolutionized 20th-Century Mathematics(quantamagazine.org)

124 points by anujbans 5 months ago | 26 comments

Mathematicians Build Long-Awaited Graph Sandwich(quantamagazine.org)

69 points by ibobev 1 month ago | 19 comments

String theory inspires a brilliant, baffling new math proof(quantamagazine.org)

167 points by ArmageddonIt 10 months ago | 156 comments

Groups underpin modern math(quantamagazine.org)

108 points by nsoonhui 2 years ago | 38 comments

New math revives geometry's oldest problems(quantamagazine.org)

137 points by pykello 1 year ago | 10 comments

A New Geometry for Einstein's Theory of Relativity(quantamagazine.org)

120 points by jandrewrogers 1 year ago | 8 comments

With fifth busy beaver, researchers approach computation's limits(quantamagazine.org)

496 points by LegionMammal978 2 years ago | 127 comments

Quanta Magazine article on how a collaborative team of amateur programmers proved the value of the fifth busy beaver number, BB(5).

Everyone is capable of, and can benefit from, mathematical thinking(quantamagazine.org)

533 points by sonabinu 1 year ago | 303 comments

Quanta Magazine Q&A with mathematician David Bessis arguing that everyone is capable of, and can benefit from, mathematical thinking.

Biology might not be quantum, but its math is quantumlike(quantamagazine.org)

112 points by pseudolus 1 month ago | 49 comments

Quanta Magazine article arguing that while biology may not rely on quantum effects, the mathematics describing biological systems resembles quantum math.

At 17, Hannah Cairo solved a major math mystery(quantamagazine.org)

437 points by baruchel 1 year ago | 168 comments

Quanta Magazine profile of Hannah Cairo, who at 17 disproved a 40-year-old conjecture in harmonic analysis after joining a Berkeley graduate class.

Why Math Dumped OpenAI(raymyers.org)

11 points by xeonmc 9 days ago | 0 comments

A blog post by Ray Myers arguing why the mathematics community moved away from OpenAI.

Computer scientists invent an efficient new way to count(quantamagazine.org)

924 points by jasondavies 2 years ago | 258 comments

Quanta Magazine article on a simple randomized algorithm for estimating the number of distinct objects in a data stream.