Calcea Johnson via MMA In December 2022, a high school in Louisiana challenged its students with a bonus math question that came with a $500 cash prize: Using trigonometry, they had to create a ...

“Some people have the impression that you have to be in academia for years and years before you can actually produce some new mathematics,” says mathematician Álvaro Lozano-Robledo of the ...

Two students who discovered a seemingly impossible proof to the Pythagorean theorem in 2022 have wowed the math community again with nine completely new solutions to the problem. While still in ...

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The loose TV adaptation of the long-running Yakuza game series is already here after being announced in June. As a fan, I was initially both stoked and skeptical hearing the news: The games are ...

2. 3. 5. 7. 11. 13. 17. And so on. This is far from a comprehensive list of prime numbers—if we were to compile and write out an exhaustive list of all known prime numbers, this would be a truly ...

1 Department of Mathematics, Faculty of Nuclear Sciences and Physical Engineering, Czech Technical University in Prague, Prague, Czechia 2 Institute of Applied Mathematics, Graz University of ...

The largest known prime number has been discovered by an amateur researcher and former Nvidia employee. The new number is 2 136,279,841 – 1, which beats the previous title holder (2 82,589,933 ...

In his eyes, it's just “simple math.” During the production crunch for Tesla’s Model 3, Musk was known for sleeping on the factory floor to monitor operations. He once told CBS's Gayle King ...

(Hardy, a mathematical giant in his own right, is said to have quipped that his greatest contribution to mathematics was the discovery of Ramanujan.) Before Ramanujan died in 1920 at the age of 32, he ...

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