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Infamous 'sofa problem' that boggled mathematicians for decades may finally have a solution
A math problem delineating the largest-size sofa that can fit around a corner has finally been solved, though it may not help you move.
What is the Fibonacci sequence?
Almost everything you know about the famous Fibonacci sequence is wrong.
High school students who came up with 'impossible' proof of Pythagorean theorem discover 9 more solutions to the problem
In a new peer-reviewed study, Ne'Kiya Jackson and Calcea Johnson outlined 10 ways to solve the Pythagorean theorem using trigonometry, including a proof they discovered in high school.
What is the largest known prime number?
There are infinitely many prime numbers, but the biggest one we know of goes by the name M82589933 and contains more than 24 million digits.
The 9 most massive numbers in existence
From the humble trillion to Graham's number, here are some of the most massive numbers ever conceived by humans.
Largest known prime number, spanning 41 million digits, discovered by amateur mathematician using free software
A draw housing six Sapphire Technology AMD graphics processing units (GPUs).
This 180-year-old graffiti scribble was actually an equation that changed the history of mathematics
A photograph of the arched stone bridge that William Rowan Hamilton scratched his equation into.
'Can you predict the future? Yes, of course you can.': Inside the 1 equation that can predict the weather, sporting events, and more
"Life isn’t chess, a game of perfect information, one that can in theory be 'solved.' It's poker, a game where you're trying to make the best decisions using the limited information you have. "
World's most difficult maze could help reveal the secrets of otherworldly quasicrystals
Scientists created a maze-like fractal inspired by the movements of chess pieces. The ultra-difficult maze could help to improve our understanding of bizarre quasicrystals.
'The beauty of symbolic equations is that it's much easier to … see a problem at a glance': How we moved from words and pictures to thinking symbolically
"Even the +, −, =, and \00d7 signs we take for granted only came into widespread use in the 17th century. Which means that the earlier algebraists we know of … all had expressed their equations mostly in words or pictorial word images"
