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

Two mathematicians have proved that a straightforward question—how hard is it to untie a knot?—has a complicated answer.

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For over a decade, mathematicians have failed to agree whether a 500-page proof is actually correct. Now, translating the ...

A new collection of research papers examines how humans conceptualize numbers and the numeral systems we’ve build around them ...

In this excerpt from the new book 'Speak Data,' the Wharton professor and best-selling author shares his thoughts on how we ...

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However, achieving this universally accepted “order fairness” is fundamentally impossible unless it is assumed that all nodes can communicate instantaneously (i.e., operating in an instant synchronous ...