A two-player game can reveal whether the universe has an infinite amount of complexity.
Recent progress on the “sum product” problem recalls a celebrated mathematical result that revealed the power of miniature number systems.
A graduate student has helped illuminate a long-suspected connection between addition and multiplication.
Neural networks can be as unpredictable as they are powerful. Now mathematicians are beginning to reveal how a neural network’s form will influence its function.
In a Paris lab, researchers have shown for the first time that quantum methods of transmitting information are superior to classical ones.
Digital security depends on the difficulty of factoring large numbers. A new proof shows why one method for breaking digital encryption won’t work.
Equations, like numbers, cannot always be split into simpler elements.
Through exacting geometric calculations, Philip Gibbs has found the smallest known cover for any possible shape.
Alexander Smith’s work on the Goldfeld conjecture reveals fundamental characteristics of elliptic curves.