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The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. All of modern mathematics is built on the foundation of set theory, the study of how to organize abstract collections of objects. But in ...

There was an error while loading. Please reload this page. In mathematics and computer science, an algorithm ( ) is a finite sequence of mathematically rigorous ...

1 College of Electromechanical Engineering, Qingdao University of Science and Technology, Shandong Province, China 2 Shandong Gaomi Technician Institute, Shandong Province, China For the low ...

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A new report by Capgemini warns that quantum computing may break the widely used public-key cryptographic systems within the next decade — threatening everything from online banking to blockchain ...

Kutchinsky’s Egg: A Family’s Story of Obsession, Love, and Loss The inaugural winner of the Yale Nonfiction Book Prize, this debut collection from Gleason contains enlightening and beautifully written ...

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