The Serial Number Lottery Hidden in Your Wallet Here's the thing: you probably toss dollar bills around without a second ...

For centuries, prime numbers have captured the imaginations of mathematicians, who continue to search for new patterns that help identify them and the way they’re distributed among other numbers.

A new program can find and compare relationships in complicated data without having to be asked specific queries Are there subtle patterns lurking in data that can foretell of a coming ...

How did you learn the mathematical formula for pi? It was likely the way I learned it. I was told to commit the value pi = 3.14 to memory along with the formula to calculate the area of a circle.

A year after he started his Ph.D. in mathematics at McGill University, Matt Bowen had a problem. “I took my qualifying exams and did absolutely horribly on them,” he said. Bowen was sure that his ...

One of the most widely adopted of the seven patterns of AI is the Patterns and Anomalies pattern. Machine learning is particularly good at digesting large amounts of data very quickly and identifying ...

Some mathematical patterns are so subtle you could search for a lifetime and never find them. Others are so common that they seem impossible to avoid. A new proof by Sarah Peluse of the University of ...