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Arabic Numerals were introduced to Europe by Leonardo Bonacci. Bonacci, better known as Fibonacci, hailed from the 13th Century Republic of Pisa. If not for Fibonacci, we would all be using ...

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 ...

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Baek Jin-eon, a 31-year-old research fellow at the June E Huh Center for Mathematical Challenges at the Korea Institute for Advanced Study, is seen in this undated photo released by the institute on ...

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