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

Prime numbers are sometimes called math’s “atoms” because they can be divided by only themselves and 1. For two millennia, mathematicians have wondered if the prime numbers are truly random, or if ...

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

We've wondered for centuries whether knowledge is latent and innate or learned and grasped through experience, and a new ...

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

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

The Busy Beaver Challenge, a notoriously difficult question in theoretical computer science, is now producing answers so large they’re impossible to write out using standard mathematical notation.

Short-term memory is finite and fills up quickly. Here are 7 ways we can free up space for clearer-headed mathematical ...

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 ...

Dan Shipper in Chain of Thought Last week I wrote that we’d be publishing a few excerpts from a book I’m writing about the worldview I’ve developed by writing, coding, and living with AI. Here’s the ...

In 1971, German mathematicians Schönhage and Strassen predicted a faster algorithm for multiplying large numbers, but it remained unproven for decades. Mathematicians from Australia and France have ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. — South Carolina Department of Education has released the latest SC READY results showing that pubic school students in grades 3 through 8 are continuing to show improvement in English ...