For over a decade, mathematicians have failed to agree whether a 500-page proof is actually correct. Now, translating the ...
Quantum mechanics has at last been formulated exclusively with real numbers, bringing a mathematical puzzle at the heart of ...
A new collection of research papers examines how humans conceptualize numbers and the numeral systems we’ve build around them ...
Researchers from Skoltech, the University of Potsdam, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have discovered a ...