Ben Brubaker

It offers a clear look at why quantum physics refuses to be captured on ordinary paper.

Written by Ben Brubaker in Quantum Magazine, narrated for ARVA.

Researchers reveal the power of quantum proofs.

Introduction.

I'm Susan Vallet.

For more on this story, read Ben Brubaker's full article, Reverse Mathematics Illuminates Why Hard Problems Are Hard, on our website, quantamagazine.org.

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There's no one here at Quanta who's thought more about what this means than our computer science writer, Ben Brubaker.

After all, he's the one who has to explain what he does and what he covers to sources and readers and friends, and even he still has some questions about this.

So he explored them in a recent essay in our Qualia series, and he's here with us today to help us get our heads around this field and its history, which you might be surprised to learn predates computers.