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The largely unexplored space of algebraic laws might contain structures unlike anything previously encountered in mathematics, which Terence Tao sometimes calls “math from Mars.”

Unresolved speaker · Mathematics Just Changed Forever — Kevin Hartnett · 26 Oct 2026

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“Hidden among them might be structures strange and unlike anything mathematics had seen before, what Tao sometimes calls math from Mars.”
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