In October 2024 Luke Durant, an independent researcher in San Jose, Calif., announced that he had discovered the largest known prime number—so enormous it would take years to write out in full. One ...

For the past several years, America has been using its young people as lab rats in a sweeping, if not exactly thought-out, education experiment. Schools across the country have been lowering standards ...

How do opinions form and change in large groups of people? That's not just a sociological question, it's a mathematical one. Ph.D. candidate Federico Capannoli studied opinion dynamics. He defended ...

Applied mathematics is the application of mathematical techniques to describe real-world systems and solve technologically relevant problems. This can include the mechanics of a moving body, the ...

Time travel is deterministic and locally free, a paper says—resolving an age-old paradox. This follows research observing that the present is not changed by a time-traveling qubit. It’s still not very ...

THIS is a thoroughly good book which deserves to run through many editions. It is not (as its title might suggest) a book on mathematical logic or philosophy: it deals not with the nature of ...

We need to talk about the lack of public bathrooms and cozy coffee shops, and that prolific public artist... you know the one ...

Python is a great language for automating everyday tasks, from managing files to interacting with websites. Libraries like ...