The artificial intelligence (AI) program DeepMind has gotten closer to proving a math conjecture that's bedeviled mathematicians for decades and revealed another new conjecture that may unravel how ...

IT WAS a perfectly ordinary night at Christ’s high table, except that Hardy was dining as a guest. He had just returned to Cambridge as Sadleirian professor, and I had heard something of him from ...

Of all the scientific disciplines, pure math, also known as theoretical math, is arguably one of the most cerebral. While chemists tend to make discoveries in the lab, mathematicians are more likely ...

From Aryabhata’s concept of zero and Euclid’s geometryto the principles that later powered modern computer science, mathematics has been shaped by thinkers across eras. This particular list focuses on ...

Mathematicians explore ideas by proposing conjectures and proving them with theorems. For centuries, they built these proofs line by careful line, and most math researchers still work like that today.

The front pages of Iranian newspapers bearing portraits of Maryam Mirzakhani, the day after she passed away ( ATTA KENARE/AFP via Getty Images) Today Breakthrough Prize Foundation Announces Maryam ...