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October 06, 2011

Approximately Hard: The Unique Games Conjecture By Erica Klarreich
Digital image of a network (pentagon with a star inside), where there is a way to color the vertices red, green and blue such that vertices that share an edge are always different colors

December 21, 2010

Finding Nirvana in Numbers By Siobhan Roberts
Hesterberg (wearing orange) and Yuval Wigderson (wearing yellow) sitting in a group of six on the wooden floor

May 18, 2010

Why Sex? By Erica Klarreich
A sperm trying to enter the egg

July 20, 2009

Mathematicians Solve 45-Year-Old Kervaire Invariant Puzzle By Erica Klarreich
A two-dimensional framed manifold described by Lev Pontryagin in the 1930s

July 15, 2009

Michael Atiyah and the Beauty of Mathematics By Julie Rehmeyer
Video screenshot of Michael Atiyah
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