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Modern technology offers new possibilities for transforming teaching. By Anant Agarwal Anant Agarwal is an education innovator. This personal reflection is part of a series called Turning Points, in ...

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Last June 23 marked the 25th anniversary of the electrifying announcement by Andrew Wiles that he had proved Fermat’s Last Theorem, solving a 350-year-old problem, the most famous in mathematics. The ...

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On August 6, 2010, a computer scientist named Vinay Deolalikar published a paper with a name as concise as it was audacious: “P ≠ NP.” If Deolalikar was right, he had cut one of mathematics’ most ...