There are no known examples so far, but mathematicians are hopeful. Mathematicians have revealed a new category of “digitally delicate” prime numbers. These infinitely long primes turn back to ...

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It’s time for Harvard students to say goodbye to their straight-A’s. On Friday, a committee of faculty advised the school to ...

December 22 of every year is celebrated as National Mathematics Day to honour the genius of Srinivasa Ramanujan. Upholding the same spirit a month later, it is worth revisiting a remarkable ...

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Professor Manjul Bhargava, an American mathematician and a winner of the prestigious Fields Medal, has urged a re-acknowledgment of the origins of the numeral system. He calls for recognising the ...

The Babylonians used separate combinations of two symbols to represent every single number from 1 to 59. That sounds pretty confusing, doesn’t it? Our decimal system seems simple by comparison, with ...

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On π-day, one mathematician explores our fascination with pi and asks why we obsessively compute its digits. Pi Day, the International Day of Mathematics, is celebrated on 14 March, due to the date's ...

Pi Day, the International Day of Mathematics, is celebrated on 14 March, due to the date's American shorthand 3/14 – the first three digits of π. The true number of digits after the decimal place ...