The Kakeya set—named for its discoverer Sōichi Kakeya—was complicated by a subsequent mathematician named Abram Samoilovitch ...

In an X video posted on April 9, actor Terrence Howard defended his controversial math theories, after he said he had 'proof' ...

It all starts with something called the Kakeya conjecture. A “conjecture” is a math guess—an idea that seems true, but nobody ...

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

A powerful mathematical technique is used to model melting ice and other phenomena. But it has long been imperiled by certain ...

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

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.

Harvard scientist Dr. Willie Soon claims a mathematical formula proves God's existence, sparking debate on the convergence of science and faith. Soon discusses examples like closed spacetime ...

These results demonstrated that there are fundamental limits to what proof and computation are capable of. Some mathematics can simply never be known. Hilbert’s dream was dead. But it lived on ...