You reach into your wallet, grab what seems like an ordinary dollar bill for your morning coffee, completely unaware that the ...

Choosing Mega Millions lottery numbers can be so hard. Many players rely on a "quick pick" automated option when purchasing their tickets from a retailer, some consistently play routine "lucky" ...

You've probably never given a second thought to the dollar bills sitting in your wallet right now. Most people don't. They're just money, right? Something to grab for coffee or parking meters, and ...

The discovery may aid research in both mathematics and materials science. “Prime numbers have beautiful structural properties, including unexpected order, hyperuniformity and effective limit-periodic ...

A childhood math pattern led me to question Jung’s claim that archetypes exist beyond the mind—and to ask which patterns come ...

Prime numbers are sometimes called math’s “atoms” because they can be divided by only themselves and 1. For two millennia, mathematicians have wondered if the prime numbers are truly random, or if ...

The seemingly random digits known as prime numbers are not nearly as scattershot as previously thought. A new analysis by Princeton University researchers has uncovered patterns in primes that are ...

Sept. 6 (UPI) --According to a new study, the distribution of prime numbers is similar to the positioning of atoms inside some crystalline materials. When scientists at Princeton University compared ...

Graphic showing the different ways that numerical data is expressed in different cultures (Barbican Centre).Image by Tim Sandle. Graphic showing the different ways that numerical data is expressed in ...

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 ...