Randolph Grace receives funding from the Marsden Fund, administered by the Royal Society of New Zealand. Everyone knows that arithmetic is true: 2 + 2 = 4. But surprisingly, we don’t know why it’s ...
A year after he started his Ph.D. in mathematics at McGill University, Matt Bowen had a problem. “I took my qualifying exams and did absolutely horribly on them,” he said. Bowen was sure that his ...