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The US has had more than 40 million COVID cases since the pandemic began
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Zero is just 1,500 years old. Before it, there was nothing.
How humans invented zero—and why some tried desperately to do without it.
Sep 26, 2018
A British mathematician thinks he’s cracked a secret worth a million bucks
But proving the Riemann Hypothesis isn't that simple.
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Jan 30, 2015
New Evidence That Baby Chicks Have Mental Number Lines Like Humans Do
Next thing you know, they'll be reciting multiplication tables
Jun 11, 2014
Soot, Comet Ice, And Medical Powders All Have This Number In Common
A new universal packing density for things made of small, rigid particles
Jan 7, 2013
Clever Measures: Three Projects That Reimagine Conventional Calculating
New ways to keep time, count bees, and spot energy leaks in your home
Nov 4, 2011
Data Harmony: How We Can Turn Piles of Raw Data Into Usable Knowledge
How do you know you’re comparing apples to apples?
Oct 18, 2010
Celebrating Benoit Mandelbrot, the Man Who Made Math Beautiful
As modern mathematicians go, few were better known or more celebrated than Benoit Mandelbrot. The father of fractals died late … Continued
