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Quanta Magazine, a science media company, explains in a movie about three major breakthroughs in mathematics in 2025, saying that 2025 is a historic year for mathematics. In March 2025, mathematicians ...

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This interdisciplinary outlook became a hallmark of Enlightenment thought and laid the groundwork for modern intellectual traditions. The book pays tribute to the scholars, translators and thinkers ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. All of modern mathematics is built on the foundation of set theory, the study of how to organize abstract collections of objects. But in ...

For much of modern history, mathematics has worked in silence. It does not stage revolutions with dramatic announcements, nor ...

India is the homeland of many greatest Mathematicians but Srinivasa Ramanujan is someone who remains one of the most extraordinary mathematicians in history. He was born on 22 December 1887, who ...

Not going to class isn't typically something good to boast about. But perhaps the late Vladimir Voevodsky is the exception to the rule. Voevodsky is credited with founding new fields of mathematics, ...

In the history of mathematics, few numbers have acquired a personality of their own. One such number is 1729, famously known as the Hardy–Ramanujan number, celebrated not for its size but for the ...

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SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Prisms VR, a learning platform pioneering a new paradigm for math education, today announced it raised $4.25MM in new Seed funding led by Andreessen Horowitz, with ...

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