Five years ago, mathematicians Dawei Chen and Quentin Gendron were trying to untangle a difficult area of algebraic geometry involving differentials, elements of calculus used to measure distance ...

Le Quang Dung, a gold medalist at the 2017 International Mathematical Olympiad, has co-authored the first paper in a series ...

Mathematicians sometimes think of their research as a garden and unsolved problems as seeds waiting to sprout. Some problems are analogous to tulip bulbs. As mathematicians work to solve them, they ...

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An inmate's love of mathematics leads to discovery in number theory Christopher Havens came upon his love of math while in solitary confinement. A decade later, he published a paper on number theory ...