When a fan of a cult anime series wanted to watch its episodes in every possible order, they asked a question that had perplexed combinatorial mathematicians for years ...

Now, more than 122 years after it was first proposed, Kamata and two other mathematicians have finally proved that a solution ...

Britta Späth has dedicated her career to proving a single, central conjecture. She’s finally succeeded, alongside her partner ...

What shapes are made by a spinning needle? This seemingly innocent problem has puzzled mathematicians for decades, but now a new proof is being called the biggest result of the current century as it c ...

If pure math can teach us anything, it’s this: occasionally, your special interest might just change the world. For Joshua Zahl and Hong Wang, that special interest was the Kakeya conjecture. “I read ...

A controversial new study has claimed that it is possible to generate electricity using the Earth's rotation, its magnetic ...

In the early 2000s, a young graduate student at Harvard University began to chart an exotic mathematical universe — one inhabited ... “Its an infamously hard result with a super long proof that ...