MOST READERS will have encountered Pythagoras’s theorem about right-angled triangles—that the square on the hypotenuse is equal to the sum of the squares on the other two sides—at school. But the less ...
The textbook uses examples from Indian monuments and cultural contexts to explain key concepts of the subject, including ...
Mathematical proofs of a certain scale ascend beyond the domain of human cognitive ability, requiring the aid of computer-driven calculation to articulate fully. One such problem, called the Boolean ...
Got a terabyte external hard drive at home? Great. Now go buy 199 more and you'll be able to store all the data that was required to make this math proof. Nature reports on a new paper in arXiv ...