Once upon a time, over 40 years ago, a horde of computer scientists descended on the West German city of Dortmund. They were competing to catch an elusive quarry — only four of its kind had ever been ...
The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. The world of mathematics is full of unreachable corners, where unsolvable problems live. Now, yet another has been exposed. In 1900, the ...
Barry Brown receives funding from Wallenberg Artificial Intelligence, Autonomous Systems and Software Program – Humanities and Social Science (WASP–HS). This article was co-authored with Erik ...