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For more than a century, scientists have wondered why physical structures like blood vessels, neurons, tree branches, and ...

The idea that reality—the universe, our world, and everything we perceive—is a simulation has fascinated philosophers and scientists for millennia, but new findings suggest that the theory, despite ...

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Abstract: Formal verification technology has been widely applied in the fields of mathematics and computer science. The formalization of fundamental mathematical theories is particularly essential.

Mathematician Masaki Kashiwara has won the 2025 Abel Prize, the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters announced today. Kashiwara is known for building bridges across seemingly distant branches of ...

Yes, I think you are. Missing something, that is. Of course everyone knows the middlegame is when things are most fragile. Of course everyone knows that game winning moves have a strong tendency to ...

Katie has a PhD in maths, specializing in the intersection of dynamical systems and number theory. She reports on topics from maths and history to society and animals. Katie has a PhD in maths, ...