Mathematicians use knots to generate infinitely many Ramanujan equations
stevenstrogatz · x · 2026-10-30
Featured in Scientific American, mathematicians—including Ken Ono and collaborators at Axiom Math—showed how knots can generate infinitely many formulas of the kind developed by Ramanujan, a notable AI-assisted math research story. Researcher YFHuang celebrated the coverage.
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