Yale professor Sam Raskin led a team to prove the geometric Langlands conjecture, solving a major part of one of math’s most sweeping paradigms.

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Photo courtesy of Math Corps Cleveland. For the educators behind Cleveland’s Math Corps program, math is much more than just a school subject. It’s a new way to see the world, said Francisca ...

This is where we are right now. Today, they dig deeper, to help us see new layers of a problem and start to solve it.

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Former Nvidia programmer Luke Durant’s search led to the groundbreaking discovery of the world’s largest known prime number ...

Five months after it was first announced, NSW launches its home battery incentive, offering up to $2,400 discounts on solar storage and rebates to join VPPs.

A possible prime number is run through a probabilistic scenario, and if it checks out, it’s most likely a prime number. It’s a solid strategy, but it has one major drawback—it takes a lot of ...

Ranked choice collects more information, so math can do more with it. If nobody has won more than 50 percent of the vote, you eliminate the person with the least number of first-place votes ...

The prime number Durant discovered serves no real purpose for society. This isn’t the key to curing a disease or proving some universal scientific theory. “It’s entertainment for math nerds ...

The first is the growing number of incidents where the South-West Interconnected System, the grid based around Perth and the more populous south-west of the state, has reached 100 per cent ...

The largest known prime number has been discovered by an amateur researcher and former Nvidia employee. The new number is 2 136,279,841 – 1, which beats the previous title holder (2 82,589,933 ...