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On paper, it’s one of the simplest math problems in the world: 2+2. If you’re counting something, like screws at the hardware store, it’s pretty straightforward. But the lines blur in other contexts.

The new year at the Lawrence Public Library will kick off not with a bang, but with a dare that encourages patrons to ...

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When I was in middle school, I had a classmate who would look at trigonometric functions and yell, "I will never need these!" ...

The Treasury secretary sees a "robust conversation" for establishing an inflation range – but the federal government and policymakers have to "maintain credibility" first.

Ramanujan’s elegant formulas for calculating pi, developed more than a century ago, have unexpectedly resurfaced at the heart of modern physics. Researchers at IISc discovered that the same ...