First-Year Graduate Student Finds Paradoxical Set
No two pairs have the same sum; add three numbers together, and you can get any whole number. The post First-Year Graduate Student Finds Paradoxical Set first appeared on Quanta Magazine
Mathematicians rejoice when they prove that seemingly impossible things exist. Such is the case with a new proof posted online in March by Cédric Pilatte, a first-year graduate student at the University of Oxford. Pilatte proved that it is possible to create a set — a collection of numbers — that satisfies two apparently incompatible properties. The first is that no two pairs of numbers in the set...
Originally published in Quanta Abstractions.
