For years, a French mathematician searched for a proof that a gigantic number is prime. His method is still used 150 years ...
A new collection of research papers examines how humans conceptualize numbers and the numeral systems we’ve build around them ...
Quantum mechanics has at last been formulated exclusively with real numbers, bringing a mathematical puzzle at the heart of ...
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The Universe's Expansion May Be Slowing Down, Not Speeding Up, Remarkable New Findings Suggest
For several decades, evidence has suggested that the expansion of the universe is accelerating. Crucial to those estimates ...
Polar bears aren't white, strawberries aren't berries and the Earth isn't round—we'll have you rethinking everything you ...
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New model reveals how supermassive stars shaped the early universe
Long ago, before galaxies formed into shapes we are familiar with today and before planets formed, the earliest stars ignited the young cosmic clouds. If you stood inside one of those ancient ...
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