A simple question about a spinning needle has haunted mathematicians for more than a century. It led to the Kakeya conjecture ...

Montgomery happened to find strikingly similar behavior in the prime numbers— specifically, the correlations between the ...

Prime numbers are sometimes called math’s “atoms” because they can be divided by only themselves and 1. For two millennia, ...

The amplituhedron, a shape at the heart of particle physics, appears to be deeply connected to the mathematics of paper ...

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Axiom Math, which has recruited top talent from Meta, has raised $64 million in seed funding to build an AI math whiz.

Alexander Grothendieck was a titan in his field, making deep connections that fuelled a revolution in mathematics, before ...

This passage sums up both the mathematical undercurrent of the book and its distinctive narrative style. Best known for ...

The question seeks to find a maximum value for the area of a sofa that can slide around a 90-degree corner in a corridor of a given width. Mathematicians have long suspected that the answer lies with ...

In theory, quantum physics can bypass the hard mathematical problems at the root of modern encryption. A new proof shows how.

Imagine knowing that the stock market will likely crash in three years, that extreme weather will destroy your home in eight or that you will have a debilitating disease in 15—but that you can take ...