Gerd Faltings proved a conjecture that had been unsolved for six decades, using connections between numbers and geometry.

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The central limit theorem started as a bar trick for 18th-century gamblers. Now scientists rely on it every day.

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Zachary del Rosario has received funding from the National Science Foundation and Toyota Research Institute. Probability underpins AI, cryptography and statistics. However, as the philosopher Bertrand ...

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This lively introductory text exposes the student in the humanities to the world of discrete mathematics. A problem-solving based approach grounded in the ideas of George Pólya are at the heart of ...

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