To make progress on one of number theory’s most elementary questions, two mathematicians turned to an unlikely source.

Mathematicians have long known that there are many kinds of infinities (technically, there are an infinity of them).

Fuzzy mathematics, a concept proposed by L.A. Zadeh in 1965, introduces the idea of fuzzy sets, emphasizing elements' degrees of membership in certain classes as potentially infinite. Over decades, ...

Born in Warsaw, Poland, in 1924, the improbably named Benoît B Mandelbröt – the ”B” stands for a non-existent middle name – would be so important to the story of fractal geometry that he pretty ...

As a digression from our usual fare on the n n -Café, here’s one of my favorites, about an early theory of the Solar System, ...

William James Sidis was the son of a psychiatrist who reportedly pushed him toward academics from an early age. Sidis could ...

Nov 22, 2024 The final chapter of this course on secretly-categorical set theory. Axiomatic Set Theory 9: The Axiom of Choice Nov 15, 2024 The penultimate week of this axiomatic set theory course, ...

Driven mostly by Tesla (NASDAQ: TSLA) and SpaceX, Elon Musk’s net worth has skyrocketed above $330 billion This run can ...

Industry resources show that OpenAI created a MATH data set with 12,500 problems from high ... probability, and number theory. There’s even some calculus. Problems vary in difficulty, some ...

A new proof demonstrates the power of arithmetic dynamics, an emerging discipline that combines insights from number theory and dynamical systems. Kelsey Houston-Edwards is a freelance math and ...

November 18th, 2024. University of Michigan. Group, Lie, and Number Theory seminar, 60 minutes : p-adic L-functions for P-ordinary Hida families on unitary groups. November 14th, 2024. University of ...