How Well Can You Spell?
Here’s a famous teaser that I don’t really like much: What number comes next in the sequence 8, 5, 4, ...
Tag: mathematics
A Teenager Solved a Stubborn Prime Number ‘Look-Alike’ Riddle
Mathematicians wanted to better understand these numbers that so closely resemble the most fundamental objects in number theory, the primes. ...
A Crucial Particle Physics Computer Program Risks Obsolescence
Recently, I watched a fellow particle physicist talk about a calculation he had pushed to a new height of precision. ...
At Long Last, Mathematical Proof That Black Holes Are Stable
In 1963, the mathematician Roy Kerr found a solution to Einstein’s equations that precisely described the spacetime outside what we ...