In October 2024 Luke Durant, an independent researcher in San Jose, Calif., announced that he had discovered the largest known prime number—so enormous it would take years to write out in full. One ...

Kids in elementary school learn—or are supposed to learn—how to add fractions and round numbers. But many students at the University of California, San Diego—a top public university ranked sixth ...

Ken Ono’s career as one of the world’s most prominent mathematicians has taken him to places that he never could have fathomed. The renowned University of Virginia professor regularly ventures far ...

You know that uncomfortable feeling you get when you have to pee really bad and don’t think you can hold it much longer? If you want to prevent an accident from happening, strengthening your pelvic ...

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If you’re not sure how to wrap a present, there’s an easy hack you can try. The clever trick—wrap diagonally, not horizontally or vertically—is based in math. Basic geometric principles explain how it ...

Applied mathematics is the application of mathematical techniques to describe real-world systems and solve technologically relevant problems. This can include the mechanics of a moving body, the ...

Time travel is deterministic and locally free, a paper says—resolving an age-old paradox. This follows research observing that the present is not changed by a time-traveling qubit. It’s still not very ...

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