Prime numbers are sometimes called math’s “atoms” because they can be divided by only themselves and 1. For two millennia, mathematicians have wondered if the prime numbers are truly random, or if ...

As a CFR fellow of more than twenty years, Max Boot has traced the ups and downs of American foreign policy. He chatted with CFR about how his career burgeoned from a love of history and the ...

Is it really possible that half of all people who have ever been age 65 or older are still alive today? We explore the amazing mathematics of demography to find out ...

The best way to do this is by converting your data to an Excel table. Select your data range (A1:E11), press Ctrl + T, and click OK. Excel names it something like "Table1"; in my case, it's Table3, ...

In January 1913, a young Indian clerk in Madras (now Chennai) mailed a thick letter to a famous British mathematician, G. H. Hardy, at Cambridge. The writer Srinivasa Ramanujan said he had no ...

One useful feature of the Python math module is quick access to mathematical constants. You can make Python more effective as a scientific calculator by using these same functions with numerical ...

Short-term memory is finite and fills up quickly. Here are 7 ways we can free up space for clearer-headed mathematical thinking.

The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded a three-year grant to Assistant Professor of Chemistry Ashlee Plummer-Medeiros to research the structure and function of bacterial cell membranes as ...

Numbers are all around us. In the morning, we wake up to an alarm that tells us it's time to get out of bed. When deciding what to wear, we often check the temperature outside. We count out the ...

In fact, the longer the government stays closed, the more opportunities the American people have to see what life looks like without thousands of nameless bureaucrats tripping over each other, slowing ...

Some things, like customer preferences, stand in the way of automation. You wouldn't want your pilot to be AI, would you?

On this episode of The David Frum Show, The Atlantic’s David Frum opens with reflections on the strange and revealing controversy over Donald Trump’s rumored commemorative coin and what it says about ...