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 ...

(THE REPORTER) — Now that everyone has mini-supercomputers that pretend to be phones in their pockets, it can be challenging to get young people to learn problem-solving skills that do not involve ...

Infinity has fascinated us since we made tools and recorded our observations as a species. The constant Q, a massive generating rate that gives life to an infinite number of domains between 0 and 1, ...

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