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 ...
A 17-year-old student has shaken the mathematics world by toppling a theory that stood unchallenged for over 40 years. Hannah Cairo's research, published in February on the online science archive ...
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 ...
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