Number theorists are always looking for hidden structure. And when confronted by a numerical pattern that seems unavoidable, they test its mettle, trying hard—and often failing—to devise situations in ...
A start-up used the Hebrew word “chai” and its numerical match, 18, to bump up giving amounts. What magic number would do the same for you? By Ron Lieber The donor note came over the transom like any ...
A new proof significantly strengthens a decades-old result about the ubiquity of ways to represent whole numbers as sums of fractions. Number theorists are always looking for hidden structure. And ...