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A New Prime Number and a Decades Old Problem

A New Prime Number and a Decades Old Problem

Mathematicians are inching towards solving a decades old problem with the discovery of a new big prime number. A new giant prime number has been discovered on 31st October, 2016 in a crowd-sourced effort, through PrimeGrid. PrimeGrid is a platform like GIMPS (Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search), where people can

What shape is your carpet?

What shape is your carpet?

The things that we are going to talk about in this article belongs to a class of mathematical objects called Fractals. Mathematically a fractal is a set that produces repeating patterns at every scale. Meaning, if you zoom in a particular region of the pattern, the smaller region will have

$Apery's constant$

Apery's Constant

Apery's constant

Apery’s constant is defined as , where represents the Euler’s zeta function. First lets us define the zeta function. Zeta function is defined as where is a complex number. The story of Apery’s constant began with the famous Basel problem and Euler’s solution of it. At the

The brand new prime

There is a brand new prime in town! Yes there is. This new prime is huge, I mean reaaaally huge. It is more than $22$ million digits long! This new prime is the latest addition to the class of prime numbers known as Mersenne primes, named after Marin Mersenne, a

Fibonacci Sequence

Some Beautiful Mathematical Gems (Sequences)

Image Courtesy: Shutterstock Mathematics is full of beautiful results, facts and theorems. One of the fun things to do in mathematics is to play with the numbers. Anyone enthusiastic enough can play with numbers and thereby discover some beautiful things hidden within it. It is always fun to play with

2015: The Year of Pluto

Kushal Bhuyan Clyde William Tombaugh On 13th March, 1930, the Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, Arizona had something new for the scientific community, a new planet beyond Neptune. A ninth member of our Solar System was discovered by a 23 year old man named Clyde Tombaugh. The search for an extra