Anyone with a mathematical inclination knows that numbers are beautiful and that pictures of numbers … that is to say, graphs … are even more beautiful. Whether the graph is of a fractal or an ...

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In 1950 Edward Nelson, then a student at the University of Chicago, asked the kind of deceptively simple question that can give mathematicians fits for decades. Imagine, he said, a graph — a ...

Imagine 100 dots scattered in front of you. In a haphazard variation on connect-the-dots, start drawing lines between the points. How many lines can you draw without producing a triangle? A square? An ...