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The result is correct but challenges core norms of mathematics: checking proofs, crediting ideas and keeping research open to everyone.

With the 2025-26 academic year behind us, and the summer stretching ahead, Columbia News is looking back at some of the top research that our faculty have produced in recent months. Columbia ...