puzzles

The aim right here is to hint out triangles on high of those strains such that the triangles fulfill two necessities: First, no two triangles share an edge. (Methods that fulfill this requirement are referred to as Steiner triple…

as the atoms of arithmetic, prime numbers have always occupied a special place on the number line. Now, Jared Duker Lichtman, a 26-year-old graduate student at the University of Oxford, has resolved a well-known conjecture, establishing…

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 which a given pattern cannot…