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Math and Science News from Quanta Magazine View this email in your browser 2022 FIELDS AND ABACUS MEDALS | ALL TOPICS   June Huh, High School Dropout, Wins Fields Medal By JORDANA CEPELEWICZ June Huh wasn't interested in mathematics until a chance encounter during his sixth year of college. Now his profound insights connecting combinatorics and geometry have led to math's highest honor. Read the article MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS   Euler's 243-Year-Old 'Impossible' Puzzle Gets a Quantum Solution By DANIEL GARISTO A surprising new solution to Leonhard Euler's famous "36 officers puzzle" offers a novel way of encoding quantum information. Read the blog GEOMETRY   Mathematicians Discover the Fibonacci Numbers Hiding in Strange Spaces By LEILA SLOMAN Recent explorations of unique geometric worlds reveal patterns, including the Fibonacci sequence and the golden ratio. Read the article   NUMBER THEORY   Mathematicians Clear Hurdle in Quest to Decode Primes By KEVIN HARTNETT Paul Nelson has solved the subconvexity problem, bringing mathematicians one step closer to understanding the Riemann hypothesis and the distribution of primes. Read the article NUMBER THEORY   Teenager Solves Riddle About Prime Number Look-Alikes. By JORDANA CEPELEWICZ In his senior year of high school, Daniel Larsen proved a key theorem about Carmichael numbers — strange entities that mimic the primes. Read the article Follow Quanta Simons Foundation 160 5th Avenue, 7th Floor New York, NY 10010 Unsubscribe | About Quanta Privacy Policy | Terms | Contact Us   Copyright © 2022 Quanta Magazine, an editorially independent division of the Simons Foundation