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Have you ever heard of a problem so absurd that a 5th grader can understand it, but not even the finest mathematical minds in the world can solve it? Introducing the Collatz Conjecture. The Collatz conjecture is a famous problem in mathematics proposed by German mathematician Lothar Collatz in 1937. Collatz was a student at…
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When I sit down to study for math (especially calculus), I feel like I am drowning in so many different types of formulas and rules. However, I hadn’t yet realized how many different contributions to math came from just one person: Leonhard Euler. Euler (pronounced oil-er!) reshaped the way mathematics is studied and applied. Born…
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Being a mathematician in the 1900s was not an occupation that many people envied. Mathematicians often didn’t have much money, and by this point in history, it seemed like there was nothing new under the sun in terms of ideas or concepts to explore in the field. John Von Neumann, a Hungarian-American mathematician, was not…
Beautiful Minds 