Mathematician Hurls Structure and Disorder Into Century-Old Problem

03/02/2022 17 min
Mathematician Hurls Structure and Disorder Into Century-Old Problem

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A new paper shows how to create longer disordered strings than mathematicians had thought possible, proving that a well-known recent conjecture is “spectacularly wrong.” The post Mathematician Hurls Structure and Disorder Into Century-Old Problem first appeared on Quanta Magazine