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Leila Sloman

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Leila Sloman is a math writer based in Princeton, New Jersey. She received her Ph.D. in mathematics from Stanford University in 2021 and has written for Popular Mechanics and Scientific American. She was an intern at Quanta Magazine in 2022.

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The Lawlessness of Large Numbers

Mathematicians can often figure out what happens as quantities grow infinitely large. What about when they are just a little big?

July 27, 2023
Math

A Numerical Mystery From the 19th Century Finally Gets Solved

Two mathematicians have proven Patterson’s conjecture, which was designed to explain a strange pattern in sums involving prime numbers.

August 17, 2022