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Science News
June 22, 2002
Ivars Peterson |
Conquering Catalan's Conjecture Preda Mihailescu of the University of Paderborn in Germany finally may have the key to a venerable problem known as Catalan's conjecture, which concerns the powers of whole numbers.   |
Science News
October 11, 2003
Ivars Peterson |
Goldbach Computations Goldbach's conjecture that every even number larger than 2 is the sum of two prime numbers remains unproven, but recent research may provide some insight. |
Science News
July 16, 2005
Ivars Peterson |
Closing the Gap on Twin Primes Euclid proved that the set of primes is infinite in size more than 2000 years ago, but no one has yet proved whether there is an infinite number of twin primes, or pairs of primes that have a difference of two. There's now hope that that matter will finally be resolved. |
Science News
August 19, 2000
Ivars Peterson |
Goldbach's Prime Pairs Evenly divisible only by themselves and one, primes are a rich source of speculative ideas that mathematicians often find simple to state but difficult to prove. The Goldbach conjecture is a prime example of such a conundrum. |
Science News
September 25, 2004
Ivars Peterson |
Euler's Sums of Powers For anyone fascinated by powers and integers, there's no shortage of problems to tackle, whether by ingenious logic or massive computer search... PUzzle of the Week... |
Science News
August 6, 2005
Ivars Peterson |
Playing with Ruth-Aaron Pairs Mathematicians have taken the home run records of Hank Aaron and Babe Ruth and made the fascinating discovery that the numbers have more in common than just baseball. |
Science News
June 2, 2001
Ivars Peterson |
Prime Twins Although most mathematicians believe that there are infinitely many twin primes, no one has yet proved this conjecture to be true. Indeed, the twin prime conjecture is considered one of the major unsolved problems in number theory... |
Science News
March 1, 2008
Julie J. Rehmeyer |
Math Trek: A Mathematical Tragedy Sophie Germain had a bold program to prove Fermat's Last Theorem. |
Science News
July 17, 2004
Ivars Peterson |
Waring Experiments The different ways of expressing whole numbers as sums of parts has long fascinated both professional and amateur mathematicians. |
Science News
February 23, 2008
Julie J. Rehmeyer |
Math Trek: An Attack on Fermat Sophie Germain was the first to propose a realistic plan to prove Fermat's Last Theorem. |
Science News
May 11, 2002
Ivars Peterson |
Song-and-Dance Fermat Fermat's Last Tango, a musical based on the story of Fermat's last theorem and the quest to prove it, is cheerful, clever, and entertaining. Its varied music is engaging. It puts mathematics on display as an intensely human endeavor... |
Science News
May 4, 2002
Ivars Peterson |
Prime Spirals There is truly not only mystery but also beauty in the distribution of prime numbers... |
Salon.com
September 5, 2002
David Appell |
Math = beauty + truth / (really hard) Explaining what the winners of the world's top awards in mathematics actually do isn't as easy as adding 2+2. But we'll give it a try. |
