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Joel David Hamkins is not a peripheral critic of artificial intelligence. He is a senior figure in mathematical logic whose career has unfolded inside some of the most demanding institutions and ...

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Born in Paris in 1976, Nalini Anantharaman is a leading French mathematician known for her pioneering work in quantum chaos and spectral geometry. A professor at the Collège de France, she has ...

Gladys West, the mathematician and technologist whose work was key to the creation of the Global Positioning System (GPS), has died at the age of 95. She passed away on Saturday, January 17. West was ...

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George Pólya’s random walk theorem absolved him of being a lurker and revealed how the laws of chance interact with physical ...

Since ancient Greece, researchers have tried to isolate special rational points on curves. Now they have the first ever formula that applies uniformly to all curves ...