![Screenshot of jdb19937.github.io: The logarithms of rational numbers have irrationality exponent 2 [pdf]](https://hn.urlbox.com/shots/renders/2026/10/10/6c4486a9-daca-41e5-92b0-577c63669b18.jpg)
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![Screenshot of jdb19937.github.io: The reciprocal sum of the prime-prefix-free numbers converges [pdf]](https://hn.urlbox.com/shots/renders/2026/10/9/782dd723-5a0f-4ad2-9aa4-d11ae9b968a4.jpg)
15 points by jdb1729 | 14 comments
A math paper proving, assuming the Riemann Hypothesis, that the reciprocal sum of prime-prefix-free integers (OEIS A287117) converges, with bounds verified in Lean 4.
31 points by yamrzou | 31 comments
![Screenshot of cr.yp.to: The cryptoint library (2025) [pdf]](https://hn.urlbox.com/shots/renders/2026/10/17/d7252175-f03a-4bd6-9d9e-1f6d618c09c4.jpg)
21 points by akkartik | 0 comments
Daniel J. Bernstein's paper describing cryptoint, a C/C++ library of constant-time integer functions designed to resist compiler optimizations that introduce timing leaks.
300 points by susam | 93 comments
![Screenshot of gwern.net: The Legend of von Neumann (1973) [pdf]](https://hn.urlbox.com/shots/renders/2026/10/2/f40e3e6d-db7b-4d6b-8562-1f3d9460447c.jpg)
292 points by suopspaces | 163 comments
A 1973 essay by mathematician Paul Halmos recounting the life, achievements, and legends of John von Neumann, presented as a scanned PDF.
![Screenshot of eprint.iacr.org: Replication of Quantum Factorisation Records with an 8-bit Home Computer [pdf]](https://hn.urlbox.com/shots/renders/2025/7/12/624f7ad8-22a1-4ac0-8d2c-d1daef29c954.jpg)
517 points by ozanonay | 181 comments
Landing page for The Lost Art of Logarithms, an online book-in-progress by Charles Petzold about logarithms and their history.
![Screenshot of web.maths.unsw.edu.au: The recently proposed o(n log n) integer multiplication algorithm [pdf]](https://hn.urlbox.com/shots/renders/2026/10/22/031b3473-91fb-4202-9bf2-aa9a7fb3e59c.jpg)
295 points by craigcitro | 290 comments
A PDF by David Harvey (UNSW) on the recently proposed O(n log n) algorithm for integer multiplication.
21 points by akkartik | 0 comments
Daniel J. Bernstein's paper describing cryptoint, a C/C++ library of constant-time integer functions designed to resist compiler optimizations that introduce timing leaks.
![Screenshot of mathcs.holycross.edu: Calculus for Mathematicians, Computer Scientists, and Physicists [pdf]](https://hn.urlbox.com/shots/renders/2025/11/23/e229c1d5-fc4e-4c18-b5f1-458787f9acf1.jpg)
332 points by o4c | 70 comments
A free PDF textbook by Andrew D. Hwang, 'Calculus for Mathematicians, Computer Scientists, and Physicists: An Introduction to Abstract Mathematics'.
361 points by 6bitquant | 380 comments
Scott Aaronson blog post reacting to OpenAI releasing hundreds of AI-generated math results, including a claimed proof of Khot's Unique Games Conjecture.
165 points by teleforce | 68 comments
An arXiv paper proposing a multi-agent AI architecture inspired by Kahneman's fast and slow thinking, with a metacognitive module choosing between system 1 and system 2 agents.