This is cool www.coinbase.com/blog/introdu...

My 4th grader just said she had used an “old timey computer”, by which she meant you had to click buttons to select something instead of directly on a touchpad or screen… coolcool

Happy last night of Chanukah!

Happy Channukah!

Here are some of the biggest breakthroughs in math this year 🧵

The Year in Math | Quanta Magazine Landmark results in geometry and number theory marked an exciting year for mathematics, at a time when advances in artificial intelligence are starting to transform the subject’s future.

Explore or revisit 2024’s biggest moments in mathematics:
www.quantamagazine.org/the-year-in-...

Rubik's as a Galois' We prove that the Rubik's cube group can be realized as a Galois group over the rationals.

Nice paper!
arxiv.org/abs/2411.11566

How Public Key Cryptography Really Works | Quanta Magazine The security system that underlies the internet makes use of a curious fact: You can broadcast part of your encryption to make your information much more secure.

Public key cryptography keeps information secure. But it does so by sharing part of your encryption scheme with the public. www.quantamagazine.org/how-public-k...