Just a year later, the RSA algorithm, named after its inventors Ron Rivest, Adi Shamir and Leonard Adleman, established a practical way to use public key cryptography. It’s still in wide use ...

At first glance, none of these make sense. According to standard math, 3 plus 4 is 7 — so how do we get 19? Same goes for the rest. It’s clearly not traditional arithmetic. But look a ...

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This story is from The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on ... Some AI models fail on really simple math problems, but then they can excel at really hard problems, Collins says.

At first glance, the problem seems ridiculously simple. And yet experts have been ... the 3n + 1 conjecture, the Hasse algorithm or the Kakutani problem. German mathematician Lothar Collatz ...