Category: Math Breakthroughs
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Unsolved Math Problems in Calculus That Sound Easy
The Casas-Alvero Conjecture The Riemann Hypothesis Navier-Stokes Existence and Smoothness The Jacobian Conjecture The Casas-Alvero Conjecture If an integer k can be expressed as the product of two integers m and n, then m and n are called factors of k. A common factor of two integers is a factor shared read more
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Unsolved Math Problems That Took Centuries to Solve
Famous Math Problems That Took Centuries to Solve Squaring the Circle Euler’s Sum of Powers Conjecture The Four Color Map Theorem Legendre’s Constant Fermat’s Last Theorem Squaring the Circle We begin with a sheet of paper, a pencil, and only two other tools. The first is a straight edge, a ruler read more
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Every Unsolved Problem in Discrete Mathematics that sounds Easy
The Riemann Hypothesis The Navier-Stokes Problem The P versus NP Problem The Collatz Conjecture The Goldbach Conjecture The Riemann Hypothesis The Riemann hypothesis is one of the unsolved cornerstones of analytic number theory. Formulated by Bernhard Riemann in 1859, it states that all non-trivial zeros of the Riemann zeta function, denoted read more
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Simple Math Problems with Hard Solutions
Six Famous Math Problems That Are Harder Than They Look The Prisoner Hat Problem Ten prisoners are put to a test. If they pass, they’ll be freed. They’ll be placed in a single-file line in size order, each seeing only those ahead. Each person will wear a randomly assigned black or white hat and won’t read more
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Every Unsolved Math Problem Solved
The Poincaré Conjecture Trisecting an Angle The Classification of Finite Simple Groups The Four Color Theorem The Continuum Hypothesis Fermat’s Last Theorem Gödel’s Incompleteness Theorems The Prime Number Theorem Solving Polynomials by Radicals The Poincaré Conjecture Henri Poincaré. Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons In 2000, the Clay Mathematics Institute, a nonprofit read more
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Every Blunder of Einstein
The Cosmological Constant and the Static Universe Black Holes and Singularities Clock Synchronization Gravitational Waves The Unified Theory of Everything The Equivalence Principle The Bending of Light Thermal Radiation and Quanta of Light The Einstein-de Haas Experiment Quantum Mechanics The Cosmological Constant and the Static Universe Cosmological constant. Public domain, via read more
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Every Unsolved Math problem that sounds Easy
The Kissing Number Problem The Goldbach Conjecture The Collatz Conjecture The Twin Prime Conjecture The Unknotting Problem The Enigma of π + e The Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer Conjecture The Riemann Hypothesis The Lonely Runner Conjecture Is γ Rational? The Kissing Number Problem A broad category of problems in math are called read more
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Greatest Physicists and their Contributions
Galileo Galilei Isaac Newton Michael Faraday James Clerk Maxwell Ludwig Boltzmann J.J. Thomson Max Planck Marie Curie Ernest Rutherford Albert Einstein Niels Bohr Paul Dirac Richard Feynman Galileo Galilei Born in Pisa, Galileo initially trained as a doctor, studying medicine at the University of Pisa. He shifted to mathematics but left read more
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Greatest Mathematicians – Final Part (Pt 3)
Famous and Influential Mathematicians from 600 BC to the 21st Century Stefan Banach Henri Cartan Israel Gelfand Laurent Schwartz David Mumford Alain Connes Karen Uhlenbeck Freeman Dyson Barry Mazur Peter Lax Yakov Sinai George Dantzig Enrico Bombieri David Hilbert Claude Shannon Felix Hausdorff Alfred Tarski Marshall H. Stone Saunders Mac Lane read more
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Greatest Mathematicians and their Discoveries – Part 2
A Timeline of History’s Greatest Mathematicians Ancient Mathematicians Indian and Central Asian Mathematicians Renaissance and Early Modern Mathematicians The Bernoulli Era and 18th Century 19th Century Mathematicians Early 20th Century Mathematicians Mid to Late 20th Century Mathematicians Ancient Mathematicians Thales of Miletus is a foundational figure in Greek mathematics and philosophy, read more
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