The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. In 2003, a German graduate student named Britta Späth encountered the McKay conjecture, one of the biggest open problems in the ...
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He Solved a Math Mystery Then Died in a Duel at 20
Galois was just 20 years old when he was shot in a mysterious duel — but not before revolutionizing mathematics. The night ...
In 1978, the mathematician John McKay noticed what seemed like an odd coincidence. He had been studying the different ways of representing the structure of a mysterious entity called the monster group ...
It's been more than 20 years since Rubik's Cube, the maddening, multicolored brainchild of a Hungarian architect teacher, hit the American market full force. Now, two decades after the cube craze ...
Mathematician Grigori Perelman solved the Poincaré conjecture, and then rejected the $1 million prize that came with it.
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