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Illustration by The Atlantic. Source: Shawn Heinrichs. As my colleague Ross Andersen reported in a recent feature for The Atlantic, an international group of scientists called Project CETI is working ...

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First proposed in 2012, the Inter-universal Teichmüller Theory (IUT) is a devilishly difficult math theory that experts describe as an “alien language.” Although only a few mathematicians around the ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: First proposed in 2012, the Inter-universal Teichmüller Theory (IUT) is a devilishly difficult math theory that experts describe as an “alien ...