Montgomery happened to find strikingly similar behavior in the prime numbers— specifically, the correlations between the ...

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Catalan numbers, a distinguished sequence in combinatorial mathematics, consistently emerge in a wide range of counting problems—from enumerating binary trees and Dyck paths to counting possible ...

Some of the most satisfying number puzzles require little mathematical know-how. In fact, cracking the one below calls for thinking that is quite nonmathematical. I don’t know where or when I first ...

RICHMOND, Va. — A winning ticket in Virginia's "Bank a Million" lottery seemed surprising at first glance. But math experts say the sequence was really no more or less unusual, or lucky, than any ...