IntroductionIn mathematics, simple rules can unlock universes of complexity and beauty. Take the famous Fibonacci sequence, which is defined as follows: It begins with...
IntroductionIn the first week of the fall semester in 2007, Marco Carmosino dragged himself to a math class required for all computer science majors...
In the world of digital storage, the terms “eMMC” and “SSD” frequently pop up, particularly when shopping for devices like laptops, tablets, and even...
Despite promises of “decentralization” and “trustless ownership,” the vast majority of crypto games today are, at best, partially decentralized. Web3 is the branding, but...
IntroductionIn 1917, the Japanese mathematician Sōichi Kakeya posed what at first seemed like nothing more than a fun exercise in geometry. Lay an infinitely...
IntroductionAs with so much in mathematics, the proof started with coffee. In September 2019, Kathryn Mann of Cornell University visited Kingston, Ontario, to give...
IntroductionThe first proof that many people ever learn, early in high school, is the ancient Greek mathematician Euclid’s proof that there are infinitely many...
Bitcoin maxis, beware! The Stacks crypto project is here to extend the Bitcoin blockchain beyond its limitations, bringing improved functionality to the world’s largest...
IntroductionIn the fall of 2017, Mehtaab Sawhney, then an undergraduate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, joined a graduate reading group that set out...
