The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. The simplest ideas in mathematics can also be the most perplexing. Take addition. It’s a straightforward operation: One of the first ...
Randolph Grace receives funding from the Marsden Fund, administered by the Royal Society of New Zealand. Everyone knows that arithmetic is true: 2 + 2 = 4. But surprisingly, we don’t know why it’s ...
In what appears to be the ultimate example of “addition by subtraction,” the Detroit Pistons have been one of the NBA’s best teams since waiving Josh Smith. They parted ways with the mercurial forward ...
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