This is a preview. Log in through your library . Journal Information The Journal of Symbolic Logic (JSL) was founded in 1936 and it has become the leading research journal in the field. It is issued ...

In 1950 Edward Nelson, then a student at the University of Chicago, asked the kind of deceptively simple question that can give mathematicians fits for decades. Imagine, he said, a graph — a ...

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Amid the chaos of revolutionary France, one man’s mathematical obsession gave way to a calculation that now underpins much of ...

In new research, mathematicians have narrowed down one of the biggest outstanding problems in math. Huge breakthroughs in math and science are usually the work of many people over many years. Seven ...

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