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Math That Connects Where We’re Going to Where We’ve Been | Quanta Magazine

IntroductionSay you’re at a party with nine other people and everyone shakes everyone else’s hand exactly once. How many handshakes take place? This is the...

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What is Encryption and How Does it Work? | Definition from TechTarget

What is encryption? Encryption is the method by which information is converted into secret code that hides the information's true meaning. The science of encrypting...

[Mirror] Exploring Elliptic Curve Pairings

Vitalik Buterin via the Vitalik Buterin Blog This is a mirror of the post at https://medium.com/@VitalikButerin/exploring-elliptic-curve-pairings-c73c1864e627 Trigger warning: math. One of the key cryptographic primitives behind various...

[Mirror] Quadratic Arithmetic Programs: from Zero to Hero

Vitalik Buterin via the Vitalik Buterin Blog This is a mirror of the post at https://medium.com/@VitalikButerin/quadratic-arithmetic-programs-from-zero-to-hero-f6d558cea649 There has been a lot of interest lately in the...

What Makes for ‘Good’ Mathematics? | Quanta Magazine

IntroductionWe tend to think of mathematics as purely logical, but the teaching of math, its values, its usefulness and its workings are packed with...

The Quest to Decode the Mandelbrot Set, Math’s Famed Fractal | Quanta Magazine

IntroductionIn the mid-1980s, like Walkman cassette players and tie-dyed shirts, the buglike silhouette of the Mandelbrot set was everywhere. Students plastered it to dorm room...

How this middle school teacher gets students to challenge themselves in math

This story was originally published by Chalkbeat. Sign up for their newsletters at ckbe.at/newsletters. When Salvador Quijada, a seventh and eighth grade math teacher at...

The ‘Accidental Activist’ Who Changed the Face of Mathematics | Quanta Magazine

IntroductionLenore Blum’s long career has spanned the breadth of mathematics and computer science. She’s done influential work in logic and cryptography, and she formulated...

The Biggest Discoveries in Math in 2023 | Quanta Magazine

IntroductionMathematical truths are often born of the conflict between order and disorder. Mathematicians discover patterns, and, to better understand the mysterious forces at play,...

Type Classes in Scala3: A Beginner’s Guide | Ledger

This document is intended for the beginner Scala3 developer who is already versed in Scala prose, but is puzzled about all the `implicits` and...

‘A-Team’ of Math Proves a Critical Link Between Addition and Sets | Quanta Magazine

IntroductionIn a randomly chosen set of numbers, addition can go wild. Add together every pair from such a set, and you’ll end up with a...

The Hidden Connection That Changed Number Theory | Quanta Magazine

IntroductionThere are three kinds of prime numbers. The first is a solitary outlier: 2, the only even prime. After that, half the primes leave...

Boffins find AI stumbles when quizzed on the tough stuff

AI models can manage well enough when prompted with text or images, and may even solve complex problems when not making terrible errors. OpenAI, for...

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