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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

What shapes are made by a spinning needle? This seemingly innocent problem has puzzled mathematicians for decades, but now a new proof is being called the biggest result of the current century as it c ...