> He toyed with the equations for months, drawing over 200 pages of pictures as he tried to make sense of them. “You have the ideas little by little,” he said. “It takes a long time to get it correct.”

I wonder if the frontiers of science have always been this messy or it's only the messy things that are left.

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For decades, mathematicians have struggled to understand matrices that reflect both order and randomness, like those that model semiconductors. A new method could change that.