News & Views Published: 08 May 2003 Mathematics Conjuring with conjectures Ian Stewart Nature 423, 125–127 (2003) Cite this article ...

• a 2-rig over a field k is a Cauchy complete k -linear symmetric monoidal category is a line object if there’s an object y with x ⊗ y ≅ I. is a bosonic line object if it is a line object and the ...

The entire tower will come crashing down. “You can create a super monster counterexample that would break a lot of conjectures,” Hickman said. On the other hand, proving the Kakeya conjecture true ...

The best conjectures usually have modest origins, such as Fermat’s casual note in the margin, but their implications and ramifications grow over the years. It also helps if the challenge can be stated ...

The full implications of the new work, and of the two conjectures, will take time to sink in. Cosmic censorship imposes an odd disconnect between quantum gravity at the centers of black holes and ...

Bookshelf ‘The Weil Conjectures’ Review: Symbols and Suffering André sought truth in number theory and algebraic geometry. Simone found it in manual labor, religious meditation and self ...

In “The Weil Conjectures,” Karen Olsson writes about her own love of math as well as the lives of the great mathematician André Weil and his sister, the philosopher and secular saint Simone Weil.