Montgomery happened to find strikingly similar behavior in the prime numbers— specifically, the correlations between the ...

Prime numbers are sometimes called math’s “atoms” because they can be divided by only themselves and 1. For two millennia, mathematicians have wondered if the prime numbers are truly random, or if ...

Can you drill a hole in a cube that an identical cube could fall through? Prince Rupert of the Rhine first asked this ...

"The kid starts cackling, and I realise he invented his own question in order to trick me into saying it," the teacher wrote.

Mathematicians thought that they understood how rotation works, but now a new proof has revealed a surprising twist that ...

Researchers have for the first time created a reconfigurable polariton 2D quasicrystal. The team from the Skolkovo Institute ...

By using something called a quantum grid, scientists have found a clever way to simultaneously measure momentum and position ...

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While 630 young math prodigies were sitting in a conference room on Australia’s sunshine coast, readying their pencils for the International Math Olympiad, a potential rival was still en route from ...