The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. In 2003, a German graduate student named Britta Späth encountered the McKay conjecture, one of the biggest open problems in the ...
Group theory is the study of algebraic structures whose elements combine via an associative binary operation, admit a unique identity and possess inverses. Originating in the analysis of permutation ...
It's been more than 20 years since Rubik's Cube, the maddening, multicolored brainchild of a Hungarian architect teacher, hit the American market full force. Now, two decades after the cube craze ...
The Math 8806-8807 sequence will cover the following topics: Group Theory (Group actions, Sylow, Nilpotent/Solvable, simple groups, Jordan-Holder series, presentations); commutative algebra ...
A new breakthrough that bridges number theory and geometry is just the latest triumph for a close-knit group of mathematicians. One of the first collaborations Xinyi Yuan and Wei Zhang ever undertook ...
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