New research from the University of Waterloo is making inroads on one of the biggest problems in theoretical computer science ...

Professor Raúl Rojas has published a book about how symbols have been used throughout history in mathematics. The work was translated into English this year.

For years, a French mathematician searched for a proof that a gigantic number is prime. His method is still used 150 years ...

The mass of the Sun is roughly \(1,989,100,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 \text{ kg}\). The charge of an electron is around \(0.0000000000000000001602 \text {C ...

When you follow Einstein’s math step by step, you enter a world where intuition starts to break down. His equations of relativity reveal that time slows down near massive objects, space itself bends ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Imagine that someone gives you a list of five numbers: 1, 6, 21, 107, and—wait for it—47,176,870. Can you guess what comes next? If ...

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Imagine that someone gives you a list of five numbers: 1, 6, 21, 107 and — wait for it — 47,176,870. Can you guess what comes next? If you’re stumped, you’re not alone. These are the first five busy ...

The Madras High Court has directed the Forest Department officials to inspect the Mata Amritanandamayi Math-run Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, a deemed university campus at Ettimadai, located at the ...

When the College Board launched its Advanced Placement Precalculus course in 2022, it aimed to expand students’ access to advanced math courses and open more doors for students to earn college credit ...

Charles Hudson had just closed his fifth fund several months ago — $66 million for Precursor Ventures — when one of his limited partners asked him to run an exercise. What would have happened, the LP ...