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 ...

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

Their proof showed that every set in that particular class had a dimension of three ... It’s also a dimensional leap for this entire area of math that’s been somewhat stuck in 2D. “People understood ...

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.

When a fan of a cult anime series wanted to watch its episodes in every possible order, they asked a question that had perplexed combinatorial mathematicians for years ...

Bride Cancels Wedding After Groom Fails Math Test "In the 2000 years since trigonometry was discovered, it's always been assumed that any alleged proof of Pythagoras's Theorem based on ...

Google researchers have developed an artificial intelligence (AI) math system that can out-smart ... trained on a larger and more diverse data set, alongside a faster symbolic engine primed ...

Example topics include logic and Boolean circuits; sets, functions, relations ... DETAILED COURSE TOPICS: All sections will deal with topics from Part I (Proofs and Mathematical Preliminaries), as ...

A Japanese entrepreneur is offering to shell out $1 million (140 million yen) to anyone who can finally resolve a deadlock over a proof of a math brainteaser. Nobuo Kawakami, the founder of ...