A recent letter (Herald, Oct, 5) attempts to conflate the counterexample proposed by 17 year-old Hannah Cairo to the Mizohata-Takeuchi conjecture (a purely mathematical problem), with climate science ...
The telescope conjecture gave mathematicians a handle on ways to map one sphere to another. Now that it has been disproved, the universe of shapes has exploded. In early June, buzz built as ...
Johnjoe McFadden’s article paid a welcome acknowledgement to William of Ockham and his great idea that we should always look for the simplest explanation for things that happen (18/25 December 2021, p ...