Prime numbers are sometimes called math’s “atoms” because they can be divided by only themselves and 1. For two millennia, ...
Montgomery happened to find strikingly similar behavior in the prime numbers— specifically, the correlations between the ...
It began as a strange discovery buried in chaos theory — a mathematical pattern that seemed to predict real events before they happened. From climate shifts to stock market crashes, scientists now ...
“Why bring together two fields that seem to many people so very disparate? What could mathematics and poetry share, except that the mention of either one is sometimes enough to bring an uneasy chill ...
This is the second in a two-part series. Part one can be found here. The debate over what early math should look like and what should be included in the Common Core State Standards for math is one of ...