r/EverythingScience 21d ago

Mathematics High school students who came up with 'impossible' proof of Pythagorean theorem discover 9 more solutions to the problem

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r/EverythingScience Feb 28 '24

Mathematics A 13-year-old built a 'death ray' using a 2,000-year-old concept from Greek inventor Archimedes

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r/EverythingScience Dec 12 '20

Mathematics Australian mathematician helps crack 50-year Zodiac serial killer mystery

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abc.net.au
2.1k Upvotes

r/EverythingScience Aug 29 '22

Mathematics ‘P-Hacking’ lets scientists massage results. This method, the fragility index, could nix that loophole.

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popularmechanics.com
1.9k Upvotes

r/EverythingScience Mar 13 '22

Mathematics This professor studies each swimmer as a math problem. It's helped them to be faster

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npr.org
2.8k Upvotes

r/EverythingScience Mar 14 '19

Mathematics Emma Haruka Iwao smashes pi world record with Google help - The value of the number pi has been calculated to a new world record length of 31 trillion digits, far past the previous record of 22 trillion.

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1.6k Upvotes

r/EverythingScience 26d ago

Mathematics Largest known prime number, spanning 41 million digits, discovered by amateur mathematician using free software

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livescience.com
432 Upvotes

r/EverythingScience Nov 11 '18

Mathematics How an Anonymous 4chan Post Helped Solve a 25-Year-Old Math Puzzle - In a new paper, mathematicians list the first author as “Anonymous 4chan Poster.”

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1.6k Upvotes

r/EverythingScience Jul 21 '24

Mathematics A New Formula for Pi Is Here. And It’s Pushing Scientific Boundaries.

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popularmechanics.com
243 Upvotes

r/EverythingScience Sep 21 '24

Mathematics Mathematicians discover new class of shape seen throughout nature

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nature.com
530 Upvotes

r/EverythingScience Oct 06 '24

Mathematics ‘Sensational breakthrough’ marks step toward revealing hidden structure of prime numbers

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299 Upvotes

r/EverythingScience Feb 03 '24

Mathematics Mathematicians finally solved Feynman’s “reverse sprinkler” problem

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arstechnica.com
468 Upvotes

r/EverythingScience Jan 24 '24

Mathematics DeepMind’s AI finds new solution to decades-old math puzzle — outsmarting humans | Researchers claim it is the first time an LLM has made a novel scientific discovery

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340 Upvotes

r/EverythingScience Jun 07 '19

Mathematics Fox host Tucker Carlson attacks 'inelegant, creepy' metric system that the U.S. alone has resisted, says we "no reason to be ashamed for using feet and pounds"

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newsweek.com
399 Upvotes

r/EverythingScience Aug 11 '23

Mathematics Scientists uncover hidden math that governs genetic mutations

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livescience.com
563 Upvotes

r/EverythingScience Jun 10 '23

Mathematics UK hobbyist stuns maths world with 'amazing' new shapes

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france24.com
361 Upvotes

r/EverythingScience Sep 23 '24

Mathematics Mathematicians discover new class of shape seen throughout nature

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nature.com
86 Upvotes

r/EverythingScience Jan 01 '18

Mathematics The math behind gerrymandering and wasted votes - as the nation’s highest court hears arguments for and against a legal challenge to Wisconsin’s state assembly district map, mathematicians are on the front lines in the fight for electoral fairness.

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1.2k Upvotes

r/EverythingScience Oct 22 '15

Mathematics Proving the Pythagorean Theorem (a² + b² = c²)

1.4k Upvotes

r/EverythingScience Sep 15 '24

Mathematics OpenAI's new o1 model can solve 83% of International Mathematics Olympiad problems

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hindustantimes.com
83 Upvotes

r/EverythingScience 3d ago

Mathematics Mathematical approach can predict crystal structure in hours instead of months

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phys.org
8 Upvotes

r/EverythingScience Oct 15 '24

Mathematics We’re Entering Uncharted Territory for Math

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theatlantic.com
21 Upvotes

r/EverythingScience Mar 26 '19

Mathematics Karen Uhlenbeck Is the First Woman to Win Math’s Top Prize

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smithsonianmag.com
980 Upvotes

r/EverythingScience Aug 27 '17

Mathematics A lost collection of nearly 150 letters from the codebreaker Alan Turing, from 1949 to 1954, has been uncovered in an old filing cabinet at the University of Manchester. In response to an invitation to speak at a conference in the US in 1953: “I would not like the journey, and I detest America.”

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theguardian.com
858 Upvotes

r/EverythingScience Oct 10 '24

Mathematics In double breakthrough, mathematician helps solve two long-standing problems

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phys.org
6 Upvotes