For years, a French mathematician searched for a proof that a gigantic number is prime. His method is still used 150 years ...

The Babylonians used separate combinations of two symbols to represent every single number from 1 to 59. That sounds pretty confusing, doesn’t it? Our decimal system seems simple by comparison, with ...

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Quantum computers are special machines that can perform certain calculations significantly faster than everyday computers – known as “classical computers” – and represent the next frontier in ...

RICHMOND, Va. (March 19, 2007) – Researchers have made an important advance in the emerging field of ‘spintronics’ that may one day usher in a new generation of smaller, smarter, faster computers, ...

Two mathematicians whose complex work in pure mathematics has led to real world changes in how we use computers were awarded the equivalent of the Nobel Prize in mathematics Wednesday, capping off ...