The starting point for rigorous reasoning in mathematics is a system of axioms. An axiom is a statement that is assumed, without demonstration, to be true. It is usually self-evident, for example, ...

This past week's puzzle, as previously posted: Christian Goldbach (1690 – 1764) was a German mathematician famous for his eponymous Conjecture. Goldbach's Conjecture is one of the most infamous ...

Consider the numbers used - Even Numbers and Primes. Both groups have a common property - Digital Roots All Digital Roots have a common property - an infinite loop ...

The Goldbach's Conjecture is an unproven conjecture of the number theory, which states that 'Every even number greater than 4 can be expressed as the sum of 2 odd prime numbers'. The Goldbach''s ...

The best kinds of ideas about numbers are easy to understand but devilish to actually prove. We saw that in the YouTube channel Numberphile's video about the Collatz conjecture. Now that channel and ...

Like the elements in chemistry, prime numbers serve as building blocks in the mathematics of whole numbers. Evenly divisible only by themselves and one, primes are a rich source of speculative ideas ...

Uncle Petros and Goldbach's Conjecture Apostolos Doxiadis (Faber, £6.99) Buy it at a discount at BOL It is a matter of some concern over and above the purely literary when a publisher, in whom the ...

Christian Goldbach (1690 - 1764) was a German mathematician famous for his eponymous Conjecture. Goldbach's Conjecture is one of the most infamous problems in mathematics, and states that every even ...