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Discovery Helps Computers Draw Intricate Two-Dimensional Animations

Lyndie Chiou

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How Many Yottabytes in a Quettabyte? Extreme Numbers Get New Names

Elizabeth Gibney and Nature magazine

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Why 2 Is the Best Number and Other Secrets from a MacArthur-Winning Mathematician

Rachel Crowell

6 Marvelous Math Stories from 2022

Math made a splash this year. Here’s a look at the fascinating discoveries, mind-bending quests and important events in mathematics in 2022

Clara Moskowitz

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Discovery Helps Computers Draw Intricate Two-Dimensional Animations

Lyndie Chiou

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How Many Yottabytes in a Quettabyte? Extreme Numbers Get New Names

Elizabeth Gibney and Nature magazine

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Why 2 Is the Best Number and Other Secrets from a MacArthur-Winning Mathematician

Rachel Crowell

Mathematics

Mathematician Who Solved Prime Number Riddle Claims New Breakthrough

Davide Castelvecchi and Nature magazine

Mathematics

Geometry Reveals the Tricks behind Gerrymandering

Manon Bischoff

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Ramsey Theory Extracts Order from Chaos when Sorting through Confusing Arrangements of Numbers

Manon Bischoff

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6 Marvelous Math Stories from 2022

Math made a splash this year. Here’s a look at the fascinating discoveries, mind-bending quests and important events in mathematics in 2022

Clara Moskowitz

Ramsey Theory Extracts Order from Chaos when Sorting through Confusing Arrangements of Numbers

Mathematician Frank Ramsey showed how to discover coherent patterns among a multitude of number groupings

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2016 Breakthrough Prize Winners

2016 Breakthrough Prize Winners

Six $3-million prizes awarded to advances in neutrino particle physics, topology, optogenetics and more

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How to Calculate a Bigger Slice of Pi

For thousands of years people have struggled to pin down pi. Watch how mathematicians from Archimedes on have wrapped their heads around the math of circles.

March 14, 2017

The Sciences

The Math behind the Polls

November 29, 2016

The Sciences

Math Puts a New Twist on Solving a Rubik's Cube with the Fewest Moves

October 26, 2016

The Sciences

Solving the Rubik's Equation

October 24, 2016

The Sciences

Ants versus Plants: Networks Need Complexity for Resilience

March 30, 2016

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Divide and Conquer Could Be Good COVID Strategy

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Divide and Conquer Could Be Good COVID Strategy

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