Math Stories for 2018

51st Known Mersenne Prime Number Found 65
An Amoeba-Based Computer Found Solutions To 8-City Traveling Salesman Problem 87
How Nature Defies Math in Keeping Ecosystems Stable 103
Mystery Math Whiz and Novelist Advance Permutation Problem 108
Quantum Computers Will Break the Encryption that Protects the Internet 166
Struggle With Statistics? Your 'Fixed Mindset' Might Be To Blame 151
Economics Nobel Laureate Paul Romer Is a Python Programming Convert 106
Study of 1.6 Million Grades Shows Little Gender Difference in Math and Science at School 370
Famed Mathematician Claims Proof of 160-Year-Old Riemann Hypothesis 193
Titans of Mathematics Clash Over Epic Proof of ABC Conjecture 105
China Now the Most Prolific Contributor To Physical Sciences, Engineering, and Math 201
This is the Story of the 1970s Great Calculator Race 187
Physicists Measure Gravity With Record Precision 161
Sportsbooks Start Refusing More Bets From 'Wise Guys' Trying To Win 167
Science Confirms That Women's Pockets Suck For Smartphones 277
Mathematicians Solve Age-Old Spaghetti Mystery 73
Tesla Is Building Its Own AI Chips For Self-Driving Cars 157
Fields Medals Awarded To 4 Mathematicians 75
The Peculiar Math That Could Underlie the Laws of Nature 242
Can Nike's $250 Running Shoes Make You Run Faster? NYT Analysis Says Yes 60
Stonehenge Builders Used Pythagoras' Theorem 2,000 Years Before He Was Born 183
Honeybees Seem To Understand the Notion of Zero, Study Finds 154
Canada's 'Random' Immigration Lottery Uses Microsoft Excel, Which Isn't Actually Random 224
Jay-Z's Tidal Accused of Faking Kanye West, Beyonce Streaming Numbers 43
60-Year-Old Maths Problem Partly Solved By Amateur 161
The Longest Straight Path You Could Travel On Water Without Hitting Land 141
Did Harvard Scientists Predict The End of the Universe? 155
Scientists Explain the Sound of Knuckle Cracking 86
Researcher Admits Study That Claimed Uber Drivers Earn $3.37 An Hour Was Not Correct 101
Math Shows Some Black Holes Erase Your Past and Give You Unlimited Futures 190
This Chinese Math Problem Has No Answer. Perhaps, It Has a Lot of Them. 443
Has the Decades-Old Floating Point Error Problem Been Solved? 174
Largest Prime Number Discovered – With More Than 23m Digits 117

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