The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. A new proof has brought mathematicians one step closer to understanding the hidden order of those “atoms of arithmetic,” the prime ...

Determining the relative abundance of two different molecular species or the absolute number of molecules in a single sample is challenging. We describe an absolute counting method that can use ...

The article details the historical development of numbers, from basic counting tools used by early humans to the sophisticated number systems used in modern science and economics, highlighting the ...

Infants and animals are able to understand approximate quantities of different types, in terms of relative proportions of the numbers of different sets of objects, provided the difference in numbers ...