Remember Microsoft Paint? It’s more perfect than ever. By Jean-Luc Bouchard My generation may be the last to have childhood memories of a family “computer room” — though ours was really more of a ...
Some minds were so far ahead of their time that the world couldn’t even understand them. This story focuses on a 19th century ...
The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Imagine that someone gives you a list of five numbers: 1, 6, 21, 107, and—wait for it—47,176,870. Can you guess what comes next? If ...