Bryna Kra featured in Quanta Magazine
January 10, 2023
Bryna Kra was recently featured in the Quanta Magazine article “From Systems in Motion, Infinite Patterns Appear.”
“Over the past few years, four mathematicians — Bryna Kra, Joel Moreira, Florian Richter and Donald Robertson — have developed Furstenberg’s techniques to find not just arbitrarily long progressions within any set containing a positive fraction of the integers, but infinite versions of structures called sumsets.” – Quanta Magazine
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