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As the World Cup final approaches, take a moment to appreciate the beautiful symmetries of humanity’s favorite truncated ...

How can you have a proof without proving anything? Mathematicians found a way and, in the process, came to blows over it – but 100 years on, this trick is a common part of modern maths, says columnist ...

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For years, physicists were stuck in trying to explain an important mathematical problem in physics. The right approach ended up being too simple.

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Some of the hardest questions in cosmology begin where the usual math gives up. Push Einstein’s theory far enough back toward ...