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The Cabot Professor of Mathematics sat down with Fifteen Minutes to discuss life lessons from mathematics, the challenges of formulating good questions, and his work visualizing curved space.

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In theory, quantum physics can bypass the hard mathematical problems at the root of modern encryption. A new proof shows how.

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