Many students walk into their first year of college calculus with nervous anticipation, bracing for a whirlwind of equations, integrals and derivatives. However, for students taking calculus with ...

A new study reveals that Srinivasa Ramanujan’s century-old formulas for calculating pi unexpectedly emerge within modern theories of critical phenomena, turbulence, and black holes. In school, many of ...

By combining the language of groups with that of geometry and linear algebra, Marius Sophus Lie created one of math’s most ...

Most of us first hear about the irrational number π (pi)—rounded off as 3.14, with an infinite number of decimal digits—in ...

But primes are often considered the building blocks of mathematics, and math itself is the scaffolding that supports ...

Researchers have used metamathematical techniques to show that certain theorems that look superficially distinct are in fact ...

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Is 170,141,183,460,469,231,731,687,303,715,884,105,727 prime? Before you ask the Internet for an answer, can you consider how you might answer that question without a ...