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Baffling 500-page ABC maths proof to be published after eight-year row

In 2012, mathematician Shinichi Mochizuki produced a proof claiming to solve the long-standing ABC conjecture, but no one understood it. Most mathematicians still don't, but it will now be published in a journal

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Safe cracking

Technology

Number-crunchers set new record for cracking online encryption keys

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Physics

Inside the race to find the first billion-digit prime number

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Mathematician’s record-beating formula can generate 50 prime numbers

Physics

Mathematician’s record-beating formula can generate 50 prime numbers

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7 mathematicians you should have heard of – but probably haven't

Mathematics

7 mathematicians you should have heard of – but probably haven't

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Mathematics

Theorem of everything: The secret that links numbers and shapes

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Prime numbers

Physics

Largest prime number ever found has over 23 million digits

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ABC Conjecture

Physics

Mathematician set to publish ABC proof almost no one understands

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