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

124 points by anujbans 5 months ago | 26 comments

Mystery math whiz and novelist advance permutation problem(quantamagazine.org)

201 points by sashank_1509 3 years ago | 80 comments

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

137 points by pykello 1 year ago | 10 comments

A collector of math and physics surprises (2018)(quantamagazine.org)

75 points by ulrischa 2 years ago | 7 comments

June Huh dropped out to become a poet, now he’s won a Fields Medal (2022)(quantamagazine.org)

206 points by bpierre 1 year ago | 123 comments

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

120 points by jandrewrogers 1 year ago | 8 comments

Hannah Cairo: 17-year-old teen refutes a math conjecture proposed 40 years ago(english.elpais.com)

384 points by leephillips 1 year ago | 89 comments

El País English article reporting that 17-year-old Hannah Cairo disproved the 40-year-old Mizohata-Takeuchi conjecture in harmonic analysis.

Citing 'severe' math deficits, UC faculty demand a return to SAT tests for STEM(latimes.com)

596 points by brandonb 5 months ago | 794 comments

LA Times article reporting that University of California faculty, citing severe math deficits, are demanding a return to SAT requirements for STEM applicants.

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.

Human mathematicians are being outcounterexampled(xenaproject.wordpress.com)

456 points by artninja1988 3 months ago | 225 comments

A Xena Project blog post about mathematicians being outpaced at finding counterexamples, from the blog on mathematicians learning the Lean theorem prover.

After 20 years, math couple solves major group theory problem(quantamagazine.org)

412 points by isaacfrond 1 year ago | 117 comments

Quanta Magazine article on how Britta Späth and Marc Cabanes proved a central group theory conjecture after 20 years of work.