(via Quanta) A simple question about a spinning needle has haunted mathematicians for more than a century. It led to the Kakeya conjecture, a cornerstone of modern analysis connecting geometry, ...

The Collatz Conjecture begins with a simple sequence yet no proof has ever been found to solve it. British military says ship ablaze after being struck off the coast of Yemen in the Gulf of Aden ...

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Recently, Schechter Long Island senior Amit Nitzan, junior Ariel Nitzan and junior Mikey Benlevi won awards from the Long Island Math Fair. The Long Island Math Fair is a mathematical research ...

1 The Official College of Telecommunications Engineers, Madrid, Spain. 2 Independent Researcher, Majadahonda, Spain. A reduced conjecture, equivalent to the Collatz conjecture, has been proposed; see ...

It is rare to read about “spectacular progress” or a “once-in-a-century” result in mathematics. That’s for good reason: if a problem has not had a solution for many years, then completely new ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Sometime in the fall of 2021, Andrew Krapivin, an undergraduate at Rutgers University, encountered a paper that would change his life.

Mathematicians from New York University and the University of British Columbia have resolved a decades-old geometric problem, the Kakeya conjecture in 3D, which studies the shape left behind by a ...

The president-elect’s most recent attempt to overturn his Manhattan conviction was rebuffed by the judge overseeing the case, who said it was based on “mere hearsay and conjecture.” By Ben Protess ...

Katie has a PhD in maths, specializing in the intersection of dynamical systems and number theory. She reports on topics from maths and history to society and animals. Katie has a PhD in maths, ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Much of mathematics is driven by intuition, by a deep-rooted sense of what should be true. But sometimes instinct can lead a ...

Much of mathematics is driven by intuition, by a deep-rooted sense of what should be true. But sometimes instinct can lead a mathematician astray. Early evidence might not represent the bigger picture ...