Piaget's 3-stage theory of the child's attainment of the concept of number was applied as a number readiness criterion to ninety-six kindergarten children. Two children were found to be at the initial ...

Had you asked G H Hardy – the Cambridge scholar responsible for myriad seminal mathematical results and developments of the early 20th century – what his favorite area of math was, he’d answer without ...

There are three kinds of prime numbers. The first is a solitary outlier: 2, the only even prime. After that, half the primes leave a remainder of 1 when divided by 4. The other half leave a remainder ...

A basic feature of number theory, prime numbers are also a fundamental building block of computer science, from hashtables to cryptography. Everyone knows that a prime number is one that cannot be ...

One of the first collaborations Xinyi Yuan and Wei Zhang ever undertook was a trip to the Social Security office. It was the fall of 2004 and the two of them were promising young graduate students in ...

Jonathan Borwein (Jon) receives funding from ARC. David H. Bailey receives no funding from Australian sources. In recent weeks, two truly major results have been announced in the realm of (analytic) ...

In this paper we combine the so-called LBG algorithm in vector quantization and the number-theoretic methods to propose a new algorithm, NTLBG, of generating vector ...