Researchers gave top AI models a classic attention test used in psychology and found a major flaw. While the models could ...

A new mathematical framework, built on a branch of number theory called adelic analysis, has produced a complete proof of the ...

A deterministic proof seems within reach, until composite numbers start masquerading as primes. This video traces how Fermat's theorem becomes a probabilistic algorithm, and why embracing uncertainty ...

IIT Kanpur director Manindra Agrawal has been elected a Fellow of the Royal Society, one of the world’s most prestigious scientific honours. The recognition places him among an elite group of ...

As of October 2024, we have found the biggest prime number we know of — and it took almost 6 years to find it. To generate this number, you multiply 2 by itself 136,279,841 times (resulting in an ...

“Theoretical ideas have a real-life impact,” said Michael Oser Rabin in a 2009 interview, 14 and he spent nearly seven decades proving it. He died on April 14, 2026, in Jerusalem, Israel, at the age ...

Michael O. Rabin was born in Breslau on September 1, 1931, the son of Rabbi Israel Rabin and writer Ester Rabin. The family emigrated to Mandatory Palestine in 1935. His interest in mathematics was ...

Abstract: In this paper, we analyze several variants of a simple method for generating prime numbers with fewer random bits. To generate a prime p less than x, the basic idea is to fix a constant q ∝ ...

Is 170,141,183,460,469,231,731,687,303,715,884,105,727 prime? Before you ask the Internet for an answer, can you consider how you might answer that question without a ...

After vowing in September to “substantially” reduce audits on a low-income tax credit, the IRS confirmed it’s taking steps to address the inequity. “We’ve announced a significant and dramatic ...