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To make progress on one of number theory’s most elementary questions, two mathematicians turned to an unlikely source.

Landmark results in geometry and number theory marked an exciting year for mathematics, at a time when advances in artificial intelligence are starting to transform the subject’s future.

Three researchers have figured out how to craft a proof that spreads out information while keeping it perfectly secret.

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For 50 years, physicists have understood current as a flow of charged particles. But a new experiment has found that in at least one strange material, this understanding falls apart. The Quanta ...