For example, many students work through short questions, such as 1 divided by 2/3 in their mathematics classes. But students ...

Without it, modern mathematics wouldn’t exist—you wouldn’t be able to solve a function, do calculus, or distinguish between one and 1 million. However you look at it, zero is unique. For researchers ...

For the second breakthrough, Tiep worked with Robert Guralnick of the University of Southern California and Michael Larsen of ...

To be fair, both of those other computers have significantly more memory bandwidth than the Mac Mini, and both have better ...

Thirty €1 coins are arranged in a circle on a table. Ten of these coins are fake and a little lighter than the 20 real coins.

A number is only considered a Mersenne prime if it can be written in the form 2ᵖ-1. Unlike other large prime numbers used ...

A number is only considered a Mersenne prime if it can be written in the form 2ᵖ-1. Unlike other large prime numbers used ... in this area,” said Dr. Kevin Buzzard, professor of pure mathematics at ...

Prime number enthusiasts, looking for larger and larger numbers that are divisible only by 1 and themselves ... etching their name into the scrolls of math history. The latest entry comes from ...

“We are here to really summarize the state of mathematics at the end of one century and to describe the problems for the young people to work on in a new century.” The project that would ...