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The Edo-period pursuit of wasan, Japan’s domestic tradition of tackling mathematical problems, was one involving samurai and commoners, young and old alike. Historical records reveal that women and ...

In 2019, mathematicians finally solved one of the hardest math problems—one that had stumped them for decades. It’s called a Diophantine Equation, and it’s sometimes known as the “summing of three ...

On April 11, 2020, John Horton Conway died of COVID-19 at the age of 82 in New Brunswick, N.J. The areas of research covered by this remarkable mathematician included group theory, node theory, ...

The proliferation of high-throughput sequencing experiments has produced a large volume of data that is increasingly expensive to archive and unwieldy to process 1. Challenges brought by the rapidly ...

Whether packing oranges into a crate, fitting molecules into a human cell or getting data onto a compact disc, wasted space is usually not a good thing. Now, in findings published June 20 in the ...

Here is a comment about the bar construction which I wanted to mention, since John told me that his course is ending soon and he might not get around to mentioning it himself. I’d like to thank Urs ...