Two years ago, a couple of high school classmates each composed a mathematical marvel, a trigonometric proof of the Pythagorean theorem. Now, they’re unveiling 10 more. For over 2,000 years, such ...
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Too little, too late: The grim combat math that proved the Me 262 could never win the war
In its final, desperate months, the legendary Me 262 jet scored spectacular kills, but the cold numbers tell the true story. Accounting for just a fraction of German fighters and enemy losses, it was ...
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The paradox that proved math can never be complete
For centuries, mathematics was seen as the one discipline immune to contradiction — until one man proved it wasn’t. In the early 20th century, Kurt Gödel uncovered a flaw buried inside logic itself, ...
For all of the recent strides we’ve made in the math world—like a supercomputer finally solving the Sum of Three Cubes problem that puzzled mathematicians for 65 years—we’re forever crunching ...
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