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Science News
May 11, 2002
Ivars Peterson |
Song-and-Dance Fermat Fermat's Last Tango, a musical based on the story of Fermat's last theorem and the quest to prove it, is cheerful, clever, and entertaining. Its varied music is engaging. It puts mathematics on display as an intensely human endeavor...   |
Science News
June 5, 2004
Ivars Peterson |
Priming Upward The Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search (GIMPS) continues to unearth new Mersenne primes. |
Science News
January 4, 2003
Ivars Peterson |
Sound-Byte Math Music Swedish composer Daniel Cummerow has created mathematical sound bytes belonging to a category known as algorithmic music. Each musical fragment is determined by a mathematical recipe -- a formula that links digits with musical notes and their duration... |
Science News
June 1, 2002
Ivars Peterson |
Setting Records Randomly Athletic record-breaking occurs in such small increments that chance factors loom large. Mathematicians and statisticians have sought recently to learn more about the role of randomness in records... |
Science News
February 2, 2002
Ivars Peterson |
Euler's Homework Even the best and most prolific of mathematicians have had to do homework assignments. Famed Swiss mathematician Leonhard Euler (1707-1783) was no exception... |
Science News
December 6, 2003
Ivars Peterson |
Megaprime Champion The catalog of humongous prime numbers has a new entry -- the champion prime (2^20996011 - 1), which has 6,320,430 decimal digits. It's the largest known prime number and the 40th Mersenne prime ever found. |
Science News
March 5, 2005
Ivars Peterson |
Primal Surge Last month saw the discovery of the 42nd known Mersenne prime, the largest prime yet identified... Puzzle of the Week... |
Science News
January 18, 2003
Ivars Peterson |
A Perfect Collaboration Together, Euclid of Alexandria (c325-c265 BC) and Leonard Euler (1707-1783), born in Switzerland and at various times resident in St. Petersburg and Berlin, collaborated on proving an interesting result in number theory -- without the benefit of e-mail or time travel. |
Science News
July 29, 2006
Ivars Peterson |
Names for Numbers Recreational mathematics offers a vast playing field for amateur and professional mathematicians alike. Named numbers, such as Smiths, have all sorts of intriguing properties. |
Science News
January 14, 2006
Ivars Peterson |
Team Mersenne A Central Missouri State University computer identified the 43rd Mersenne prime, setting the record for the largest known prime number. This behemoth, 2 30402457 - 1, runs to a whopping 9,152,052 decimal digits. |
Science News
February 24, 2001
Ivars Peterson |
Appealing Numbers It's amazing how much effort has gone into tracking down amicable numbers, which have practically no application in mathematics. They have a curious appeal that has endured for millennia... |
Science News
March 1, 2008
Julie J. Rehmeyer |
Math Trek: A Mathematical Tragedy Sophie Germain had a bold program to prove Fermat's Last Theorem. |
Science News
February 23, 2008
Julie J. Rehmeyer |
Math Trek: An Attack on Fermat Sophie Germain was the first to propose a realistic plan to prove Fermat's Last Theorem. |
Science News
September 25, 2004
Ivars Peterson |
Euler's Sums of Powers For anyone fascinated by powers and integers, there's no shortage of problems to tackle, whether by ingenious logic or massive computer search... PUzzle of the Week... |
Salon.com
September 5, 2002
David Appell |
Math = beauty + truth / (really hard) Explaining what the winners of the world's top awards in mathematics actually do isn't as easy as adding 2+2. But we'll give it a try. |
Science News
April 5, 2008
Julie J. Rehmeyer |
Math Trek: Creeping Up on Riemann Mathematicians move a step closer to unraveling the mystery of prime numbers. |
Science News
January 31, 2004
Ivars Peterson |
Amicable Pairs, Divisors, and a New Record The Pythagoreans of ancient Greece were fascinated by whole numbers. One particular interest involved what we now call amicable numbers. |
