>"Imagine if we lived on a cube-shaped Earth. How would you find the shortest path around the world?"

>"Long considered solved, David Hilbert’s question about seventh-degree polynomials is leading researchers to a new web of mathematical connections."

"It’s an educated guess, not a proof. But a good conjecture will guide math forward, pointing the way into the mathematical unknown."

>"If the dots on the loading screen were planets, is their motion realistic? And can we actually model it?"

>"Fifty years on, the mathematician’s best known (and, to him, least favorite) creation confirms that “uncertainty is the only certainty.”"

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