A simple question about a spinning needle has haunted mathematicians for more than a century. It led to the Kakeya conjecture ...
When aircraft first approached the speed of sound engineers discovered a wall of drag that no power could overcome The answer lay not in engines but in shape a rule of geometry that made high-speed fl ...
If you’re a hacker you may well have a passing interest in math, and if you have an interest in math you might like to hear ...
Roger Penrose, who won the 2020 Nobel Prize for Physics, said on Tuesday that the biggest outstanding riddle about black holes was the question of what went on in the very centre of them - the ...
More than 50 years ago, acclaimed theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking theorized that the area of a black hole could never ...
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Two American Teenage Girls May Have Cracked a 2,000-Year-Old Math Puzzle With a Stunning New Pythagoras Proof
For over two millennia, mathematicians agreed on one thing: you can’t use trigonometry to prove Pythagoras’ Theorem—because trigonometry is built on it. That logic, drilled into students and scholars ...
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