The Unsolvable Problem
After a years-long intellectual journey, three mathematicians have discovered that a problem of central importance in physics is impossible to solve—and that means other big questions may be undecidable, too...
Michael M. Wolf is a professor of mathematical physics in the department of mathematics at the Technical University of Munich. His research focuses on the mathematical and conceptual foundations of quantum theory. Credit: Nick Higgins
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