Montgomery happened to find strikingly similar behavior in the prime numbers— specifically, the correlations between the positions of the notorious zeros of the Riemann zeta function. They weren’t ...

Prime numbers are sometimes called math’s “atoms” because they can be divided by only themselves and 1. For two millennia, mathematicians have wondered if the prime numbers are truly random, or if ...

Short-term memory is finite and fills up quickly. Here are 7 ways we can free up space for clearer-headed mathematical thinking.

Sometime in late 1780s, a math teacher in an elementary school in Brunswick, Germany, asked his students to add up the numbers from 1 to 100 to keep them occupied for a while so he could attend to ...

In Japan, short-term class closures due to localized influenza outbreaks adversely affected the math test scores of elementary school boys from low-income households, likely due to reduced in-school ...

We can explain this by considering the feedback loops in the system. When the ability of the AI to correctly identify the rats increases, then the rate of trapping rats increases. This leads to a ...

In this intriguing video, we explore baffling scenarios where mathematical calculations simply do not add up. From everyday mishaps to humorous mathematical blunders, discover what happens when ...

At the International Math Olympiad, Google’s AI joined hundreds of humans working through problems designed to stump even the brightest minds.

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The new bachelor’s degree brings together essential elements of both mathematics and computing training and includes the applications of mathematical theories relevant to computing and data, as well ...