The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Imagine that someone gives you a list of five numbers: 1, 6, 21, 107, and—wait for it—47,176,870. Can you guess what comes next? If ...
Some minds were so far ahead of their time that the world couldn’t even understand them. This story focuses on a 19th century heiress who predicted what computers could become long before they existed ...