At the playground on the leafy campus of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey, one afternoon in May, the mathematician Akshay Venkatesh alternated between pushing his 4-year-old ...
A new proof has brought mathematicians one step closer to understanding the hidden order of those “atoms of arithmetic,” the prime numbers. The primes — numbers that are only divisible by themselves ...
The delightful math YouTube channel Numberphile is asking a surprisingly contentious question: what’s the smallest number we can be pretty sure no one has ever thought of before? Think of your own ...
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