Mathematics
The search for the next record-breaking prime number
By: Steven Mars
The largest prime number ever discovered is (2^57,885,161)-1. It was discovered on January 25, 2013, as of the date of the writing of this article (May 6, 2013). It won the $100,000 prize awarded by the Electronic Frontier Foundation. It was found...
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By: Calvin Wolf
When playing against an opponent, how should you strategize? In many fields exists the study of "game theory," which is the study of strategic decision making. Game theory helps reveal which alternatives have greater statistical likelihood of being successful. In economics, for example, game...
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Biography: Akshay Venkatesh, mathematician
By: Gillian Taber
Akshay Venkatesh (21 November 1981 - ) is an Australian-Indian mathematician. His mathematical interests are wide but he lists his current field as “… number theory and related topics, especially automorphic forms and representation theory” on his Stanford University webpage. Akshay grew up in...
By: Gillian Taber
Juan Caramuel y Lobkowitz (23 May 1606 - 7 Sept. 1682) was a Spanish mathematician, writer and philosopher, famous for his Catholic faith and his prolific number of published works on subjects such as astronomy and mathematics. Born to Lorenzo Caramuel and Catalina de Frisia...
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