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Mathematician Hurls Structure and Disorder Into Century-Old Problem

The Quanta Podcast

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The Structure and Disorder of the Vanderverrittan Problem

Green's construction isn't the final word on the Vanderverrittan problem. Just as with earlier constructions, he can't prove that there aren't significantly longer bead strings out there. Fox: "This is somehow halfway in between the two, a random union of structured objects"

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