Supercharacter theory offers a tractable refinement of classical character theory by consolidating characters and conjugacy classes into supercharacters and superclasses. Initially conceptualised to ...
The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. In 2003, a German graduate student named Britta Späth encountered the McKay conjecture, one of the biggest open problems in the ...
Ever since Archimedes, mathematicians have been fascinated by equations that involve a difference between squares. Now two mathematicians have proven how often these equations have solutions, ...
Group theory is the mathematical study of symmetry and structure, forming one of the cornerstones of modern algebra. Emerging from early investigations into polynomial equations and the permutations ...
In 2003, a German graduate student named Britta Späth encountered the McKay conjecture, one of the biggest open problems in the mathematical realm known as group theory. At first her goals were ...
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