If pure math can teach us anything, it’s this: occasionally, your special interest might just change the world. For Joshua Zahl and Hong Wang, that special interest was the Kakeya conjecture. “I read ...

Now, more than 122 years after it was first proposed, Kamata and two other mathematicians have finally proved that a solution ...

By proving a broader version of Hilbert’s famous 10th problem, two groups of mathematicians have expanded the realm of mathematical unknowability.

The COVID-19 pandemic showed in real time, and with the highest of stakes, how hard it can be to decide if something is true.

Nigerian astrophysicist Olamilekan Ogunrinde, reacting to Harvard's Dr. Willie Soon, says mathematics falls short in proving ...

Web2 developers who have spent their careers on polished programs such as Python or Java have to relearn how to code each ...

Monash University researchers have extended Descartes’ Circle Theorem by finding a general equation for any number of tangent ...

A powerful mathematical technique is used to model melting ice and other phenomena. But it has long been imperiled by certain “nightmare scenarios.” A new proof has removed that obstacle.

What shapes are made by a spinning needle? This seemingly innocent problem has puzzled mathematicians for decades, but now a new proof is being called the biggest result of the current century as it c ...