Prime numbers are a central topic of study in math. Despite being an object of fascination for millennia, there are still a lot of unsolved problems involving primes. Prime numbers are one of the most ...

Jeremiah Bartz owns shares in Nvidia. A shard of smooth bone etched with irregular marks dating back 20,000 years puzzled archaeologists until they noticed something unique – the etchings, lines like ...

The recent spate of popular books on the Riemann hypothesis, which concerns the distribution of prime numbers and is the greatest unsolved math problem since Andrew Wiles solved Fermat's famous last ...

While I was looking for a gift for a child’s birthday, a math book fell into my hands. I am always fascinated when authors write about abstract scientific topics for children, whether it’s on Albert ...

Prime numbers are all the rage these days. I can tell something’s up when random people start asking me about the randomness of primes—without even knowing that I’m a mathematician! In the past couple ...

Each time you make a purchase online, your credit card number is kept safe using the power of prime numbers. Cryptography is the study of coding and sending secret messages. The idea is to construct a ...

Numbers hide complex relationships that are tough to imagine. So here’s a pretty picture that brings them to light. The world belongs to the mathematicians and the physicists. We lay people may pump ...

The best kinds of ideas about numbers are easy to understand but devilish to actually prove. We saw that in the YouTube channel Numberphile's video about the Collatz conjecture. Now that channel and ...

A brilliant young mathematician becomes an enemy of the deep state in a paranoid new potboiler streaming on Apple TV+. By Calum Marsh Leo Woodall is the first to admit that he doesn’t know a lot about ...

If Special Ed teachers are drama queens as my professor at Western New Mexico University claims, then teaching is the ultimate form of improv. For example, when a seventh grade student in inclusion ...