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Cryptography depends on the assumption that nobody can factor prime numbers efficiently. Is this assumption safe?
Andrew Wiles wins the Abel Medal with a proof that was 350 years in the making
That’s Maths: Fermat’s last theorem has been accepted as correct since 1637, although there was no proof until the British mathematician found it
‘We are on the wrong track with artificial intelligence’
According to Freeman Dyson, ‘the man who replaced Einstein at Princeton’, computer scientists should use analogue rather than digital machines to imitate the human brain
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Not many know the name William Rowan Hamilton, but he deserves official recognition
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