THE Heidelberg Laureate Forum, a confluence of brilliant minds in mathematics and computer science, recently fostered a ...

Two mathematicians have proved that a straightforward question—how hard is it to untie a knot?—has a complicated answer.

Mathematicians have broken through a long-standing barrier in the study of “minimizing surfaces,” which play an important ...

At the 2024 International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO), one competitor did so well that it would have been awarded the Silver ...

Mathematician Grigori Perelman solved the Poincaré conjecture, and then rejected the $1 million prize that came with it.

The math behind even the simplest ocean waves is notoriously uncooperative. A team of Italian mathematicians has made major ...

Helping students to develop math fluency takes more than just flash cards. It requires teaching them how to think about ...

Google's AlphaProof is capable of solving complex mathematics but it's greatest feature may actually be finding errors.

Marijn Heule turns mathematical statements into something like Sudoku puzzles, then has computers go to work on them. His ...