Dr. JeFreda R. Brown is a financial consultant, Certified Financial Education Instructor, and researcher who has assisted thousands of clients over a more than two-decade career. She is the CEO of ...

A simple, elementary method is given for deriving estimates of sums of arithmetic functions, the estimates being in a certain sense uniform over a class of functions appearing in the summation. The ...

The simple definition of a mean is that of a numeric quantity which represents the center of a collection of numbers. Here the trick lies in defining the exact type of numeric collection, as beyond ...

Analytic number theory occupies a central place in modern mathematics by employing analytical techniques to address questions surrounding the distribution of prime numbers and the behaviour of ...

Before the 13th century Europeans used Roman numerals to do arithmetic. Leonardo of Pisa, better known today as Fibonacci, is largely responsible for the adoption of the Hindu–Arabic numeral system in ...

Randolph Grace receives funding from the Marsden Fund, administered by the Royal Society of New Zealand. University of Canterbury provides funding as a member of The Conversation AU. University of ...

Consider this sequence of numbers: 5, 7, 9. Can you spot the pattern? Here’s another with the same pattern: 15, 19, 23. One more: 232, 235, 238. “Three equally spaced things,” says Raghu Meka, a ...