The new year 2024 is a difference of squares, , which got me thinking about a fun little number theory problem: Is there a largest number that can not be expressed as the difference of Read more…
The new year is one of my favorite kinds of numbers: a difference of squares! This observation got me thinking about what kinds of numbers can be written as the difference of squares. For example, Read more…
My latest column for Quanta Magazine tells the mathematical story of the incredible high school student who proved a result about not-quite prime numbers that had eluded mathematicians for decades. [Daniel] Larsen was a high Read more…
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