At the University of Vaasa in Finland, mathematician Yosra Barkaoui has successfully generalized a fundamental theorem that had remained confined to “bounded” systems for more than 40 years.

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For generations, Indian students have learnt it simply as the Pythagoras Theorem. In a quiet but significant shift, the Class ...

The Chicken McNugget Theorem states that for any two relatively prime positive integers ‘m, n’, the greatest integer that cannot be written in the form ‘am+bn’ for non-negative integers a, b is ...

This is for the first time that the Baudhāyana–Pythagoras Theorem has been introduced in Class 8 NCERT Math textbook. , ...

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