When Hannah Cairo was 17 years old, she disproved the Mizohata-Takeuchi conjecture, a long-standing guess in the field of harmonic analysis about how waves behave on curved surfaces. The conjecture ...

Consider someone who’s perfectly content with their office chair. It’s not ergonomic, it doesn’t have lumbar support, but it works. Then, during a meeting or a visit to a friend’s office, they sit in ...

Katie has a PhD in maths, specializing in the intersection of dynamical systems and number theory. She reports on topics from maths and history to society and animals. Katie has a PhD in maths, ...

The program implements the Collatz Conjecture, also known as the 3n + 1 problem. Calculates the Collatz sequence for a given positive integer, displays the highest number in the sequence, the amount ...

After German mathematician Gerd Faltings proved the Mordell conjecture in 1983, he was awarded the Fields Medal, often described as the “Nobel Prize of Mathematics.” The conjecture describes the set ...

In July, U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris met with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to discuss the war in Gaza and the future of the Middle East. Afterward, Harris stressed her commitment to ...

Exploring potential solutions, rather than focusing on problems, is the premise of solution-based therapy, a brief and actionable therapeutic approach to meeting challenges in life. Many psychotherapy ...

if a given term is even, the term that follows is half the given term; if a given term is odd, then the terms that follows is the successor of three times the given term. For example, the Collatz ...