Is 170,141,183,460,469,231,731,687,303,715,884,105,727 prime? Before you ask the Internet for an answer, can you consider how you might answer that question without a ...

To protect a public survey with a CAPTCHA. While REDCap 8.11.0 and newer provides Google reCAPTCHA as an integrated service, this may not be suitable in all circumstances (e.g. servers with tight ...

I’m teaching Edinburgh’s undergraduate Axiomatic Set Theory course, and the axioms we’re using are Lawvere’s Elementary Theory of the Category of Sets — with the twist that everything’s going to be ...

If you had to choose a few words or symbols to encapsulate your legacy, what would you pick? Johann Carl Friedrich Gauss (1777–1855) left behind a trophy case stocked with mathematical achievements to ...

Most famous equation: Einstein's E = mc2, which means energy is equal to mass times the speed of light squared.

Abstract: An arithmetic logic unit in computing is a combinational digital circuit that operates on integer, binary integers mathematically and bitwise. The aim of this paper is to design an ALU using ...

A new proof has debunked a conspiracy that mathematicians feared might haunt the number line. In doing so, it has given them another set of tools for understanding arithmetic’s fundamental building ...

The calculation of derivatives is ubiquitous in science and engineering. In thermodynamics, in particular, state properties can be expressed as derivatives of thermodynamic potentials. The manual ...

The twin primes conjecture is one of the most important and difficult questions in mathematics. Two mathematicians have solved a parallel version of the problem for small number systems. On September ...