An example of a linear sequence. A list of numbers or diagrams that are in a particular order is called a sequence close sequenceA sequence is a set of numbers that follow a certain rule. For example, ...

In “The Great Math War,” Jason Socrates Bardi takes on a battle for the soul of numbers that divided the experts of its day.

Do you have the maths knowledge to solve this sequence that has people scratching their heads? You may have done a fair few maths puzzles at school, but it is not something we generally do in our ...

Katie has a PhD in maths, specializing in the intersection of dynamical systems and number theory. She reports on topics from maths and history to society and animals. Katie has a PhD in maths, ...

Can you infer the simple rule behind a number sequence that spikes up and down like the beating of a heart? Our Insights problem this month is based on a sequence of integers which comes from Neil ...

Mathematicians have taken a step forward in understanding patterns within the primes, numbers divisible only by 1 and themselves. According to the new work, the population of prime numbers contains an ...