Australian National University provides funding as a member of The Conversation AU. Recently, as a community ambassador for ANU Student Equity, I took to a local secondary school to talk maths with a ...

Carlo Rovelli discusses his research on time and his view that it should not appear in the quantum theory of gravity. A Once-in-a-Century Proof: The Kakeya Conjecture Robert Hazen and Michael Wong ...

One of the great episodes in the history of mathematics began on October 23, 1852. In a letter to Sir William Rowan Hamilton, Augustus De Morgan wrote, “A student of mine asked me today to give him a ...

Imagine you're a mapmaker, ready to finish your masterpiece map of the world. The only thing left to do is add the colors. But how many colors do you need for the countries if you want to make sure no ...

In mathematics, you need at most only four different colors to produce a map in which no two adjacent regions have the same color. Utah and Arizona are considered adjacent, but Utah and New Mexico, ...

https://doi.org/10.4169/amer.math.monthly.120.08.733 https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.4169/amer.math.monthly.120.08.733 Abstract After a brief discussion of the ...