Today, Wolfram Research released Mathematica 9, the newest version of its powerful technical computing software.
The web's most extensive mathematics source and most powerful knowledge engine have now joined forces. Excerpts from MathWorld's 13,000+ mathematical entries are now incorporated in Wolfram|Alpha...
http://blog.wolframalpha.com/2011/01/28/wolframalpha-meets-mathworld/
Today, Wolfram Research released Mathematica 8, the newest version of its powerful technical computing software.
Join us for the first annual Wolfram|Alpha Homework Day on Wednesday October 21, 2009. This live, interactive web event will showcase how Wolfram|Alpha is helping students, parents, and educators...
A new Mersenne prime was reported to the GIMPS server in April, but not noticed until now due to a configuration issue on the server. The discovery has now been verified and officially announced ...
A new Mersenne prime was reported to the GIMPS server in April, but not noticed until now due to a configuration issue on the server. GIMPS organizer Woltman has verified that the last save file ...
Today, Wolfram Research released Mathematica 7, the newest version of its powerful technical computing software.
Two years after the 44th known Mersenne prime was reported (MathWorldheadline news, September 11, 2006), the GIMPS project has discovered the 45th and 46th known Mersenne primes: 2^37156667 - 1 a...
http://mathworld.wolfram.com/news/2008-09-16/mersenne-45-46/
A new Mersenne prime was reported to the GIMPS server on August 23, 2008. This prime was confirmed by Septempber 6, though its value has not yet ben revealed pending independent verification usin...
A new Mersenne prime was reported to the GIMPS server on August 23. GIMPS organizer Woltman has asked the finder to send the last save file, so it should very soon be known with more than 99% cer...
While MathWorld continues to be the most popular and most visited mathematics sites on the internet, and while its mathematical content continues to steadily grow and expand, MathWorld readers wi...
Wolfram Research is pleased to partner with CBS in promoting math awareness through NUMB3RS. As the world's leading producer of software for mathematical and scientific computation, Wolfram Resea...
A universal Turing machine is powerful enough to emulate any standard computer. The question is: how simple can the rules for a universal Turing machine be? Since the 1960s it has been known that...
Viewers of prime time television will likely be quite familiar with police chases, blood-stained bodies, and massive explosions. What they may be less familiar with is a protagonist whose job tit...
http://blog.wolfram.com/2007/05/the_mathematica_behind_televis.html
As many of you have probably noticed on the pages of MathWorld, a number of exciting new things have happened in the last few days that may be of special interest to you. The first is the long-aw...
The largest known twin prime pair found to date was discovered today through the Twin Internet Prime Search and PrimeGrid distributed computation projects. The new twins are 2003,663,613 2^195000...
Less than a year after the 43rd known Mersenne prime was reported (MathWorldheadline news, December 25, 2005), the GIMPS project has discovered the 44th known Mersenne prime: 2^32582657 - 1. The ...
Less than a year after the 43rd known Mersenne prime was reported (MathWorld headline news, December 25, 2005), GIMPS project organizer George Woltman is reporting in an email message that a new ...
The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters has awarded the 2006 Abel Prize to Lennart Carleson of Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden. Carleson received the Abel Prize for his contributions t...
Less than a year after the 42nd known Mersenne prime was reported (MathWorld headline news, February 26, 2005), the GIMPS project has discovered the 43rd known Mersenne prime: 2^30402457 - 1. The...
Less than a year after the 42nd known Mersenne prime was reported (MathWorld headline news, February 26, 2005), GIMPS project organizer George Woltman is reporting in an email message that a new ...
A team at the German Federal Agency for Information Technology Security (BSI) recently announced the factorization of the 193-digit number known as RSA-640. The team responsible for this factoriz...
After a nearly 15-year wait, the complete 4-volume set of Michael Trott's definitive Mathematica GuideBooks> is now available. Described as a unique tour de force by prominent mathematicians, phy...
A new system of computer-generated music known as WolframTones has been launched by Wolfram Research. WolframTones works by taking simple programs in the form of cellular automata and using music...
Wolfram Research and the MathWorld team are pleased to announce the unveiling of a number of exciting new features on the MathWorld website. These innovative features--including the new MathWorld...
A team at the German Federal Agency for Information Technology Security (BIS) has announced the factorization of the 200-digit number known as RSA-200. The team responsible for this factorization...
The 2005 Abel Prize in mathematics has been awarded to Peter D. Lax for his groundbreaking contributions to the theory and application of partial differential equations and the computation of sol...
Less than a year after the 41st known Mersenne prime was reported (MathWorld headline news, June 1, 2004), the GIMPS project has discovered the 42nd known Mersenne prime: 2^2596495 - 1. The disco...
Less than a year after the 41st known Mersenne prime was reported (MathWorld headline news, June 1, 2004), GIMPS project organizer George Woltman is reporting in an email message that a new Merse...
The recent tragic events following the December 2004 magnitude 9.0 earthquake in the Indian Ocean have reminded us of the need for scientific understanding and modeling of complicated physical ph...
While the last several months have not been filled with any particularly earth-shattering new mathematical results, a number of interesting events, findings, and mathematical books have recently ...
Google makes use of unusual mathematically oriented recruiting techniques. These techniques have received additional coverage in the last few weeks and months following the erection of a mathemat...
You can now sport an elegant, mathematical look by donning a T-shirt bearing the MathWorld logo. The new MathWorld shirt is a short-sleeve white T-shirt made of 100% cotton adorned with attractiv...
http://mathworld.wolfram.com/news/2004-10-11/mathworld-tshirt/
The 2004 Wolfram Technology Conference invites authors, students, educators, and developers who use Mathematica and other Wolfram products to participate. This year's conference will include cont...
A June 8 Purdue University news release reports a proof of the Riemann Hypothesis by L. de Branges. However, both the 23-page preprint (from 2003) cited in the original release and a 124-page pre...
A May 26 preprint by Vanderbilt University mathematician R. F. Arenstorf appears to come close to settling the long-standing question of the infinitude of twin primes. While a hole has recently b...
Josh Findley, a participant in the Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search (GIMPS), identified the 41st known Mersenne Prime on the morning of May 15. The discovery was confirmed on May 29, making 2...