This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American In math, there are infinitely many roots of ...
Hilbert’s 12th problem asked for novel analogues of the roots of unity, the building blocks for certain number systems. Now, over 100 years later, two mathematicians have produced them. Problems in ...
This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American I started Roots of Unity in January 2013, so ...