This algorithm can tell which number sequences a human will find interesting The result hints that machines could one day be trained to spot mathematical elegance and beauty.

Randall Kerstetter, Erik Vollbrecht, Brenda Lowe, Bruce Veit, Judy Yamaguchi, Sarah Hake, Sequence Analysis and Expression Patterns Divide the Maize knotted1-Like Homeobox Genes into Two Classes, The ...

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, Vol. 87, No. 2 (1990), pp. 826-830 (5 pages) We have developed a method for rapidly finding patterns of conserved amino ...

For centuries, prime numbers have captured the imaginations of mathematicians, who continue to search for new patterns that help identify them and the way they’re distributed among other numbers ...

Though the Fibonacci sequence shows up everywhere in nature, these young mathematicians were surprised to find it in the answer to a variation of the pick-up sticks problem⁠—a nearly two ...