At 25, Kurt Gödel proved there can never be a mathematical “theory of everything.” Columnist Natalie Wolchover explores the ...

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The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. The world of mathematics is full of unreachable corners, where unsolvable problems live. Now, yet another has been exposed. In 1900, the ...

This news release is available in Spanish and German. A mathematical problem underlying fundamental questions in particle and quantum physics is provably unsolvable, according to scientists at UCL, ...