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  <description>Research blog by Dr. Tamás Nagy — machine-verified proofs, open problems, mathematical insights</description>
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    <title>Why random matrix theory keeps appearing in Riemann zeros</title>
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    <description>Montgomery&#x27;s 1973 observation — that the pair correlation of Riemann zeros matches the GUE ensemble of random matrix theory — is one of those results that *shouldn&#x27;t* work, and yet has been confirm...</description>
    <pubDate>Wed, 22 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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    <title>What does Lean 4 actually check in a number theory proof?</title>
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    <description>People hear &quot;machine-verified proof of the Riemann Hypothesis&quot; and imagine the computer checking every $\varepsilon$-$\delta$ argument from Rudin. That&#x27;s not what happens, and the gap between expec...</description>
    <pubDate>Mon, 20 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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    <title>One algebra, six open problems</title>
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    <description>When I tell people the same algebraic framework applies to Navier–Stokes, the Fenton distribution, and neural scaling laws, the first reaction is disbelief. Fair enough — cross-domain claims are us...</description>
    <pubDate>Sat, 18 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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    <title>Collatz as a Lyapunov stability problem: the β-halving trick</title>
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    <description>The Collatz conjecture is usually stated as: take any positive integer, if even halve it, if odd do $3n+1$, repeat — do you always reach 1?</description>
    <pubDate>Wed, 15 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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    <title>The Fenton distribution: 60 years, and the answer was grade 2</title>
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    <description>In 1960, Lawrence Fenton published an approximation for the distribution of the sum of lognormal random variables. His moment-matching approach was elegant, and it worked well enough for engineerin...</description>
    <pubDate>Fri, 10 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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