Hacker News with Generative AI: Group Theory

After 20 years, math couple solves major group theory problem (quantamagazine.org)
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.
Mathematics, Group Theory, Research, Academic Achievements
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Groups underpin modern math (quantamagazine.org)
Mathematics started with numbers — clear, concrete, intuitive. Over the last two centuries, however, it has become a far more abstract enterprise. One of the first major steps down this road was taken in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. It involved a field called group theory, and it changed math — theoretical and applied — as we know it.
Mathematics, Group Theory
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