This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American This blog is called "Roots of Unity" because ...

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American On Monday, the Onion reported that the ...

Hilbert’s 12th problem asked for novel analogues of the roots of unity, the building blocks for certain number systems. Now, over 100 years later, two mathematicians have produced them. Problems in ...