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Fan Chung, who has an Erdős number of 1, discusses the importance of connection — both human and mathematical.

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A new proof has debunked a conspiracy that mathematicians feared might haunt the number line. In doing so, it has given them another set of tools for understanding arithmetic’s fundamental building ...

The accelerating effort to understand the mathematics of quantum field theory will have profound consequences for both math and physics.