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The kilogram just got a revamp. A unit of time might be next
After years of preparation, new definitions for the basic units of mass, temperature and more have now gone into effect.
By Emily Conover | 7:00am, May 20, 2019
Calabi-Yau manifolds
Reviews & Previews | Numbers
A mathematician traces his journey from poverty to prominence
By Diana Steele | 9:00am, April 26, 2019
multiplication
News | Numbers
Mathematicians may have found the fastest way to multiply huge numbers
By Emily Conover | 7:00am, April 08, 2019
two pigeons, each sitting in a cubbyhole
News | Numbers
Photons reveal a weird effect called the quantum pigeonhole paradox
By Emily Conover | 6:00am, February 13, 2019
Le Grand K
News | Numbers
It’s official: We’re redefining the kilogram
By Emily Conover | 7:22am, November 16, 2018
Bernhard Riemann
Context | Numbers
Before his early death, Riemann freed geometry from Euclidean prejudices
By Tom Siegfried | 7:00am, September 28, 2018
Anshumali Shrivastava
Feature | Numbers
Anshumali Shrivastava uses AI to wrangle torrents of data
By Maria Temming | 8:28am, September 26, 2018
color plot
News | Numbers
Here’s why we care about attempts to prove the Riemann hypothesis
By Emily Conover | 11:46am, September 25, 2018
London’s Bethlem Hospital illustration
Reviews & Previews | Numbers
The study of human heredity got its start in insane asylums
By Bruce Bower | 8:00am, July 01, 2018
illustration of numbers
Soapbox | Numbers
Real numbers don’t cut it in the real world, this physicist argues
By Emily Conover | 10:00am, May 08, 2018
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