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How the Square Root of 2 Became a Number | Quanta Magazine

IntroductionThe ancient Greeks wanted to believe that the universe could be described in its entirety using only whole numbers and the ratios between them...

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How Failure Has Made Mathematics Stronger | Quanta Magazine

IntroductionReading a math paper is a bit like having dinner at a nice restaurant. The entrée might taste delicious, but it doesn’t tell the...

Strangely Curved Shapes Break 50-Year-Old Geometry Conjecture | Quanta Magazine

IntroductionIn an old Indian parable, six blind men each touch a different part of an elephant. They disagree about what the elephant must look...

Jim Simons, the renowned mathematician and Wall Street quant legend, dies at the age of 86 – Tech Startups

Jim Simons, the pioneering investor and Wall Street investor, has passed away at the age of 86. The Simons Foundation announced the sad news...

A Rosetta Stone for Mathematics | Quanta Magazine

IntroductionIn 1940, from a jailhouse in Rouen, France, André Weil wrote one of the most consequential letters of 20th-century mathematics. He was serving time...

To Pack Spheres Tightly, Mathematicians Throw Them at Random | Quanta Magazine

IntroductionMathematicians like to generalize concepts into higher dimensions. Sometimes this is easy. If you want to efficiently pack squares in two dimensions, you arrange them...

US private equity firm Thoma Bravo to acquire UK cybersecurity company Darktrace for $5.3 billion in cash – Tech Startups

Thoma Bravo, a US private equity firm known for its aggressive acquisitions, has made another big move in the market. Today, they announced their...

From Clicks to Cash: The Economics Behind Online Slots

In the vast realm of online entertainment, few phenomena have captured the imagination and wallets of users quite like online slots. What started as...

Behavioral Side of Total Supply and Price per Token

This article is the second part of series to learn more about Tokenomics from author & contributor: Max K - CEO Coinstruct.tech.  Read the...

AI Starts to Sift Through String Theory’s Near-Endless Possibilities | Quanta Magazine

IntroductionString theory captured the hearts and minds of many physicists decades ago because of a beautiful simplicity. Zoom in far enough on a patch...

Mathematicians Marvel at ‘Crazy’ Cuts Through Four Dimensions | Quanta Magazine

IntroductionThe central objects of study in topology are spaces called manifolds, which look flat when you zoom in on them. The surface of a...

Supply-Side Tokenomics: Supply, Distribution, Optimization

Author & Contributor: Max K - CEO Coinstruct.tech What are the right choices for vesting terms & cliffs, token distribution and token pricing? What...

Cryptography Tricks Make a Hard Problem a Little Easier | Quanta Magazine

IntroductionWhat’s the best way to solve hard problems? That’s the question at the heart of a subfield of computer science called computational complexity theory....

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