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

In an extraordinary achievement that has stunned the global mathematics community, two high school students from Louisiana ...

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 ...

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 ...