In the 1800s French mathematician Édouard Lucas spent years proving that this 39-digit number was indeed prime. Lucas, who ...

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In January, I spoke with Günter Ziegler, one of the authors of Proofs From THE BOOK, a compilation of some of the most beautiful and elegant proofs in mathematics. The collection was inspired by the ...

An exciting breakthrough by an academic little known before last year is firing up mathematicians. Now even playwrights are getting in on the act. Leslie Katz led a team that explored the intersection ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract The restriction on 2-primary components in the Artin-Verdier duality theorem [2] has been eliminated by Zink [9], who has shown that the sheaf ...