An exciting new discovery centre has landed in our city that’s sure to excite the numberphile in your life, and covertly convert those who are too cool to like maths. Introducing MathsWorld, which has ...

Balls bouncing in a ring. This simulation outlines how chaos emerges from a simple ball bouncing around in a ring. This code was inspired by a numberphile video on chaos-theory. Simple Pygame project ...

Jim Simons, the mathematician-investor who created what many in finance consider the world’s greatest moneymaking machine at his secretive firm, Renaissance Technologies, has died. He was 86. He died ...

Jim Simons, the billionaire investor, mathematician and philanthropist, died on Friday in New York City, according to his foundation, the Simons Foundation. Simons was 86 years old. Simons, the ...

A number theorist with programming prowess has found a solution to 33 = x³ + y³ + z³, a much-studied equation that went unsolved for 64 years. Now, Andrew Booker, a mathematician at the University of ...

We've all heard about the infamous number 666, which is rather cryptically referred to as the "number of the beast" in the New Testament, and has more recently become known as the number of the ...

In World War II, the Allies faced a dilemma. The German Enigma machine created encrypted messages, and the Germans changed the code every day. Even if a code was broken, that solution was only good ...

"Everything old is new again." ~Peter Allen (1944-1992). What is so special about the number 998001? If you divide 1 by 998001, you will get every three digit number from 001 to 999, in its correct ...