Last week, in a conversation with Anthropic’s Claude, I lamented the fact that, at least here in the West, every public debate appears to resemble a confrontation rather than a dialogue. I suggested ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Imagine that someone gives you a list of five numbers: 1, 6, 21, 107, and—wait for it—47,176,870. Can you guess what comes next? If ...

Imagine that someone gives you a list of five numbers: 1, 6, 21, 107 and — wait for it — 47,176,870. Can you guess what comes next? If you’re stumped, you’re not alone. These are the first five busy ...

Students around the world often dislike mathematics and eagerly await the day when they won’t have to struggle with long, complicated calculations. While the hate is widespread, a comprehensive ...

The TI-89 is a graphing calculator used in advanced mathematics classes and approved for use on examinations like the Scholastic Aptitude Test and various Advanced Placement tests. While its large ...

A UNSW Sydney mathematician has discovered a new method to tackle algebra’s oldest challenge – solving higher polynomial equations. Polynomials are equations involving a variable raised to powers, ...

Problem you'd like to fix: Add support to write recurring decimals. Describe the solution you'd like: An option in the toolbox to be able to write numbers in recurring decimal format and the ...

As a supplement to the interesting properties of circulating decimal fractions which have been published in two recent numbers of NATURE, I give you the following, which I think is sufficiently ...

so what we're saying in words or in math I should say is we know that the fraction one-half because it's I picked this one because it's the one everybody knows we know that the fraction one-half from ...

The ancient scholar Hippasus of Metapontum was punished with death for his discovery of irrational numbers—or at least that’s the legend. What actually happened in the fifth century B.C.E. is far from ...