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

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

Fast forward to today, and Zahl and Wang are now co-authors of a yet-to-be-peer-reviewed proof heralded by Eyal Lubetzky, chair of the mathematics department at the Courant Institute where Wang is ...

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The proof has to prove that no solutions exist ... Had she been born into high society, her study of mathematics might have been more acceptable. Although aristocratic women were not actively ...

the course Mathematical Methods (MA100), or the course Quantitative Methods (Mathematics) (MA107). The course is an introduction to the use of formal definitions and proofs in mathematics, and to ...

Andrew Wiles devoted much of his entire career to proving Fermat's Last Theorem, the world's most famous mathematical problem. In 1993, he made front-page headlines when he announced a proof of ...