Math

  1. Math

    Sosa’s Corked Bat

    Does Sammy Sosa's hitting reveal a corked-bat effect?

    By Ivars Peterson
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    Manuscripts as Fossils

    A new mathematical model estimates how many medieval manuscripts have survived to the present.

    By Erica Klarreich
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    Sea Shell Spirals

    The golden ratio doesn't figure into the spiral structure of the chambered nautilus shell.

    By Ivars Peterson
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    New largest prime discovered

    Computers have discovered a new largest prime number with a whopping 7,816,230 digits.

    By Erica Klarreich
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    Fibonacci’s Other Numbers

    Arrays of whole numbers can give intriguing sums.

    By Ivars Peterson
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    Primal Surge

    The Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search has netted its eighth champion.

    By Ivars Peterson
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    Super Bowl Crashes

    Should you stay off the road immediately after the Super Bowl telecast is over?

    By Ivars Peterson
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    Super Bowl Crashes

    Should you stay off the road immediately after the Super Bowl telecast is over?

    By Ivars Peterson
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    Life on the Scales

    A mathematical equation helps explain life processes on all biological scales, from molecules to ecosystems.

    By Erica Klarreich
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    Knot Divided in Snow

    The Möbius strip gets embedded in a knotty block of snow.

    By Ivars Peterson
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    Hospitals motivated to skimp on infection control

    A new mathematical model suggests that the presence of nearby hospitals may give a hospital an economic incentive to relax its infection-control efforts.

    By Erica Klarreich
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    Sizing Up Complex Webs: Close or far, many networks look the same

    Complex networks, including the World Wide Web, have a common architecture with snowflakes and trees.

    By Erica Klarreich