Math
We summarize the week's scientific breakthroughs every Thursday.
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Progressive Primes
Prime numbers have all sorts of remarkable and mysterious properties. Evenly divisible only by themselves and 1, primes can’t be written as the product of smaller positive integers. There are infinitely many of them, and they appear to be scattered somewhat haphazardly among the whole numbers. It’s not yet known if there are infinitely many […]
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Primal Progress: Pattern hunters spy order among prime numbers
The population of prime numbers includes an infinite collection of arithmetic progressions.
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Functions on Display
To mathematicians, the term “function” has a specific meaning. It’s a rule that assigns a fixed output for a given input; in effect, a formula. Among the most familiar functions are the sine and cosine functions of trigonometry. The Wolfram Functions Site offers a huge functions database, providing information about and visualizations of more then […]
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From Number Puzzles to Automata
A high school student plays with numbers and does an award-winning project elucidating the link between automata and divisibility.
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Riding on Square Wheels
A square wheel can roll smoothly if it travels over a roadway of the right geometric shape.
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Pinpointing Killer Asteroids
Two award-winning high school students' projects focused on new methods for pinpointing asteroids locations.
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Deriving the Structure of Numbers
A novel mathematical function called the number derivative offers new insights into the structure of integers.
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Mapping Scientific Frontiers
Can computer visualization help identify turning points and milestones in scientific discovery?
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Mining the Tagged Web
IBM's WebFountain project gathers and annotates Web content on a vast scale to serve as a platform for data miners.
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