When you are adding larger numbers, it’s often better to use a written method. Column addition is a good written method to add one number to another. It involves putting the digits of each number into ...

David Harvey receives funding from the Australian Research Council. Around 1956, the famous Soviet mathematician Andrey Kolmogorov conjectured that this is the best possible way to multiply two ...

When you subtract using large numbers, it's often better to use a written method. Column subtraction is a good written method to take one number away from another. It involves writing the smaller ...

In 1971, German mathematicians Schönhage and Strassen predicted a faster algorithm for multiplying large numbers, but it remained unproven for decades. Mathematicians from Australia and France have ...

Four thousand years ago, the Babylonians invented multiplication. Last month, mathematicians perfected it. On March 18, two researchers described the fastest method ever discovered for multiplying two ...