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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 ...

The University of Leicester will be facilitating interdisciplinary discussion across key mathematical and physical disciplines involved in the solution of Hilbert's sixth problem: To axiomatise the ...

Hilbert’s 12th problem asked for novel analogues of the roots of unity, the building blocks for certain number systems. Now, over 100 years later, two mathematicians have produced them. Problems in ...