The Boolean problem of Pythagorean triples, stated 35 years ago, has been solved by a Stampede supercomputer from the University of Texas. However, the solution is so extensive that it requires 200 terabytes, equivalent to all the digitized texts in the possession of the Library of Congress, thus becoming the largest mathematical proof ever produced … Read more
We all have some basic notions of how to get from one place to another as quickly as possible while walking through a normal city. In the first place, if we must cross a square, we will do it diagonally , instead of going down the sides. Second, if we have to save a block … Read more
The rules of the game of matches are very simple: a certain number of matches are spread out in a row and each of the two players must take turns choosing between removing one, two or three. The player who removes the last match, loses. (Of course, the game can also be played with chopsticks … Read more
The old Indian Bakhshali manuscript, text contains the oldest record of the number zero, dating from the 3rd or 4th century, according to the latest radiocarbon dating . That is, the number zero is 500 years older than what had been established. The number zero Zero, as a concept , has been present in culture … Read more
Discrete geometry studies the combinatorial properties of points, lines, circles, polygons and other geometric objects, and in this field where the resolution of this problem is important. We refer to the conjecture of the László Fejes Tóth area , which had been seeking its possible solution for 40 years. The zone conjecture Formulated in 1973 … Read more
The binary system , in computer science, is a numbering system in which numbers are represented using only two digits: zero and one (0 and 1). It is one of the systems that computers are used because they work internally with two voltage levels. Memorizing binary numbers is particularly difficult. Imagine something like this: 10101101011010010100000111101011001010101001010101 … Read more
The Millennium Prize problems were declared by the Clay Mathematics Institute on May 24, 2000. The problems are The P versus NP Problem, The Riemann Conjecture, The Yang-Mills Theory, The Navier-Stokes Equations, The Conjecture from Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer, The Hodge Conjecture and The Poincaré Conjecture. Now the third on the list could have been solved. … Read more
First described in 1882 by Felix Klein , the container that bears his name is closed, has no rim, and has only one "side" (that is, it does not have a clearly differentiated interior and exterior). The largest in the world is on display at the Kingbridge Center in Toronto, Canada, and is owned by … Read more
One of the most popular places in Japan is the Shibuya Crossing in front of Shibuya Station in Tokyo, famous for being the most crowded crossing in the world. So it is not surprising that it was precisely a team of mathematicians from the University of Tokyo who has described the mathematical principle by which … Read more
The word "fractal" was coined by the mathematician Benoît Mandelbrot to describe what he had just described, that is, a shape that revealed details at any scale. It was 1982. A paradigmatic example of this would be the coastline of an island. This will always be uneven, regardless of whether one looks at the headlands, … Read more
The high-performance computer of the Center for Data Analysis, Visualization and Simulation (DAViS), of the University of Applied Sciences of Graubünden (FHGR), in Switzerland, has broken the world record for calculating decimals of the number Pi . It has thus surpassed the old world record of 50 trillion figures by 12.8 trillion new, previously unknown … Read more