It took a long time for zero to be recognised as a number at all, let alone one of the most powerful ones – but now it’s ...

The set $A$ of natural numbers is an asymptotic basis for $S$ if the sets $S$ and $2A$ eventually coincide. An asymptotic basis $A$ for $S$ is minimal if no proper ...

Jeremiah Bartz owns shares in Nvidia. A shard of smooth bone etched with irregular marks dating back 20,000 years puzzled archaeologists until they noticed something unique – the etchings, lines like ...

Digitally delicate prime numbers become composite with this one weird trick. Math researchers proved these primes exist using the bucket proof method. There are no known examples so far, but ...

Born in Tamil Nadu's Erode on December 22, 1887, the self-taught mathematical prodigy Srinivasa Ramanujan made extraordinary contributions to mathematical analysis, number theory, infinite series and ...