Science news articles about 'number theory'

... shapes have waves associated with them. Soundararajan and Holowinsky showed that for certain shapes that come from number theory, the waves always spread out evenly. For these shapes there are no " ...

A student/faculty team at Westfield State College made a new discovery in number theory -- the first known example of a 3 by 3 by 3 generalized arithmetic progression.

... fractions. The area of such a triangle is called a "congruent number." For example, the 3-4-5 right ... Waterloo, "A few years ago we combined ideas from number theory and physics to predict how congruent ...