Updated 15 December 2025 For this post I am going to stray outside my usual topics of astronomy and space science into the more abstract realms of pure mathematics. One of the oldest and most famous unsolved mathematical problems is the Goldbach conjecture. This is Every even number greater than 2 can be expressed as… Continue reading The Goldbach Conjecture
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196-an unsolved problem
For my latest post I'll move away from my usual topics of astronomy and space travel and I'll talk about an interesting unsolved problem in mathematics which is: 'Is the number 196 a Lychrel number?'. What is a Lychrel number? There is a simple mathematical operator called reverse and add where you take a number… Continue reading 196-an unsolved problem
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