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79 concepts · 7 question voyages

Depart from a question, not a definition

A mathematical concept is not an isolated term. It became necessary under pressure, crossed worlds of people and numbers, and opened the next idea.

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Choose one concept and let its question lead into people, number worlds, historical scenes, and the map.

A question of its own
Find order without counting everything

Combinatorics

“Can we count exploding possibilities without listing every one?”

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Paul Erdős
Number seas crossed
ℕℤℚ
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12345678910111213141516171819202122232425
A question of its own
Find order without counting everything

Prime Numbers

“As numbers grow, do primes fade away—or reveal a hidden order?”

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Euclid
Number seas crossed
ℕℤℚ
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A question of its own
Read the world behind shape

Pythagorean Theorem

“Why did one right-triangle equation crack the world of fractions?”

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Pythagoras
Number seas crossed
ℚℝ∖ℚℝ
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A question of its own
Read the world behind shape

Non-Euclidean Geometry

“If one rule about parallel lines changes, does the shape of the universe change too?”

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Bernhard Riemann
Number seas crossed
ℚℝ∖ℚℝ
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A question of its own
Read the world behind shape

Graph Theory

“What can we learn after erasing distance and shape, leaving only connections?”

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Leonhard Euler
Number seas crossed
ℚℝ∖ℚℝ
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A question of its own
Catch change and accumulation

Calculus

“How can instantaneous speed and distance over time become the same calculation?”

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Isaac Newton
Number seas crossed
ℝℂℵ
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ReIma+bi
A question of its own
Catch change and accumulation

Complex Analysis

“Why do stricter rules emerge after imaginary numbers are allowed?”

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Bernhard Riemann
Number seas crossed
ℝℂℵ
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A question of its own
Read signals from chance

Probability

“Why can thousands of trials be predictable when one trial is not?”

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Blaise Pascal
Number seas crossed
ℚ0.1ℝ
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H(X)
A question of its own
Read signals from chance

Information Entropy

“Can uncertainty be measured without reading what a message means?”

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Claude Shannon
Number seas crossed
ℚ0.1ℝ
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A question of its own
Move sameness around

Group Theory

“How can we calculate what remains while a shape changes?”

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Évariste Galois
Number seas crossed
ℤℂℍ
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102013
A question of its own
Move sameness around

Vectors and Matrices

“How can one table hold a rule that moves many numbers at once?”

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Arthur Cayley
Number seas crossed
ℤℂℍ
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A question of its own
Test the floor beneath mathematics

Set Theory

“If all mathematics is built from collections, what becomes possible—and what breaks?”

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Georg Cantor
Number seas crossed
ℕℝℵ
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A question of its own
Test the floor beneath mathematics

Infinity

“Can one endless thing be larger than another?”

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Georg Cantor
Number seas crossed
ℕℝℵ
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1011010qₛ
A question of its own
Find the edge of solvability

Computability

“If a procedure is exact, will it eventually solve every question?”

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Alan Turing
Number seas crossed
0ℕℂ
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3051
A question of its own
Find the edge of solvability

Game Theory

“If my best move depends on yours, where does rationality live?”

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John von Neumann
Number seas crossed
0ℕℂ
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