Somewhere at the edge of mathematics lurks a number so large that it breaks the very foundations of our understanding - and ...

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A team of physicists claims to have killed the simulation hypothesis with math. According to Science Daily, researchers led ...

After 32 years of waiting, mathematicians calculate Dedekind's ninth number, a 42-digit giant that defied logic.

Is there an infinity of infinities? The question sounds almost absurd, like a child’s riddle meant to twist your brain into knots. But for mathematicians, it’s a serious (and endlessly fascinating) ...

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Alan Turing, Albert Einstein, Stephen Hawking, John Nash—these “beautiful” minds never fail to enchant the public, but they also remain somewhat elusive. How do some people progress from being able to ...

A Chinese genius flexed his mathematical prowess by solving a problem that flummoxed a team of mathematicians with Ph.D.s for four months in a single night. Wei Dongyi, a 30-year-old assistant ...

In January, the math community had its big event of the year -- the Joint Mathematics Meeting -- where 3,000 mathematicians and math students gathered to talk about new advances in the field and ...