Mathematicians Solve Decades-Old Classification Problem

If you’re conducting a census of all the plants growing in a specific region, rather than tally every single plant, you might decide to organize them by species. Doing this along certain stretches of the Tuscany coast would not be too difficult, said the University of Turin mathematician Gianluca Paolini, because you’ll mainly find a single plant — maritime pine (pinus pinaster). If you were in…

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