The Langlands program has inspired and befuddled mathematicians for more than 50 years. A major advance has now opened up new ...

By proving how individual molecules create the complex motion of fluids, three mathematicians have illuminated why time can’t ...

Perhaps Wiles’ proof, with a few simplifications, is God’s proof for Fermat’s Last Theorem. But it’s not a proof for the readers of our book, because it’s just beyond the scope, both in ...

November 6, 2008, Providence, RI---New computer tools have the potential to revolutionize the practice of mathematics by providing far more-reliable proofs of mathematical results than have ever ...

The largest proof in mathematics is colossal in every dimension – from the 100-plus people needed to crack it to its 15,000 pages of calculations. Now the man who helped complete a key missing ...

Math proofs can go through many iterations and attempts before they're correct. The abc conjecture dates to the 1980s and is an extension of Fermat's last theorem.

The new work is an exciting proof of concept, though its actual contributions to mathematics are modest so far. “None of [the questions the model solved] were super-important conjectures,” said Wagner ...

Proof of life Johns Hopkins mathematician Joel Spruck and a former student recently succeeded in proving a long-standing conjecture about the area of negatively curved spaces, such as flower petals or ...