Fields
Diskin, Easo Team Solves Percolation Phase
A team of five mathematicians has proven the 'sharpness conjecture' for percolation on infinite transitive graphs, solving a decades-old puzzle about the speed of phase transitions in networks.
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Learning & careers
Mathematicians Solve Percolation Phase
A team of five mathematicians has proven the supercritical sharpness conjecture for transitive graphs, solving a decades-old puzzle about the speed of
Results & debates
Computer Science Debates Its Core Subject
Theoretical computer scientists debate whether their field is fundamentally about computers or the abstract study of algorithms and computation, a question
Fields
Hilbert Space: The Arena of Quantum States
Von Neumann’s 1927 axioms placed Hilbert space at the core of quantum mechanics, unifying matrix and wave formulations and defining the quantum state as a vector in a complete inner-product space.